Doing Dew Hazardous To Your Health?
Mountain Dew has a flame retardant in it. There’s BVO in there. What’s BVO, you say? It’s a flame retardant for
plastics aka brominated vegetable oil. It’s banned in Europe and Japan. But it’s there in your Mountain Dew. And your Squirt, Fanta Orange, Sunkist Pineapple, Gatorade Thirst Quencher (only orange flavor), Powerade Strawberry Lemonade and Fresca Original Citrus. Is this a bad thing, necessarily? Depends on who’s talking.
The FDA
has set safety limits on it, but the
Environmental Health News
, a group of online journalists, have issued a report saying this chemical has had a cloudy history/
Hot Topics
, Seattle PI.
More here.
DFO: It figures. My favorite soft drink is Mountain Dew. Also like Squirt & Fanta Orange.
Question: Do you do the Dew? And/or: Which soda pop drink is your fave?
* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog