Bill aims to ban chemicals that appear in the candy, perhaps setting an example nationwide
“No one’s going to walk away from the California market,” he says.
Whether the bill passes or not, it’s worthwhile, says Diana Winters, deputy director at the Resnick Center forLaw & Policy at UCLA School of Law. “I think its purpose, which is valuable, is getting the FDA to look again at these chemicals, and possibly to re-evaluate its entire system for reviewing food additives,” she says.
That issue is very much on Gabriel’s mind. “Approximately 99% of chemicals that go into food in the United States go through no independent, meaningful FDA review,” he says. “The real story here is the lack of federal oversight.” Mars, the manufacturer of Skittles, has already come under pressure over titanium dioxide: a California man’s lawsuit last year called them “unfit for human consumption”. The company said its ingredients were safe.
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