A proposed California bill would ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of foods, like Skittles, containing chemicals that have been linked to health concerns including decreased immune response, hyperactivity in children & increased risk of cancer.
LAUSD bus drivers, custodians, teachers, classroom aides and cafeteria workers join wet, cold picket lines at shuttered schools across the district.The bill would make California the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of foods containing the chemicals, according to a release from Gabriel’s office.
Skittles and other products still line the shelves of stores in Europe, Gabriel noted, but they have different ingredients. A lawsuit filed last year in California against Mars, which manufactures Skittles, claimed that the colorful confections wereThe substance is approved by the FDA, which says it can make up no more than 1% of the food by weight.
“Certainly some of [the chemicals] are probably more dangerous than some of the others,” Hunnes said in an interview with The Times. “We know parabens, for example, are endocrine disruptors [which affect hormones]. We know red dyes are carcinogenic.”
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