All five chemicals are present in American versions of various food products. Three of the substances, titanium dioxide, brominated vegetable oil and potassium bromate, have already been banned from food by European regulators.
Products using the chemicals would be forbidden for manufacture or sale in the state until the substances were removed.
Citrus soda, such as Sun Drop, would lose an emulsifier that prevents flavoring from rising to the top of each bottle. “It is unlikely they’ll have one recipe in California and one in Oklahoma,” Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, Woodland Hills Democrat and sponsor of the bill, told the Daily Mail.
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