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For Corporate Polluters’ Front Groups, Every Day is Defraud the Earth Day

If you heard of a great, health-protective advocacy group called Citizens for Fire Safety (CFFS), you might want to learn more before joining their efforts to protect children from fire hazards. So it might really annoy, disappoint, even enrage you to learn that they don’t really represent citizens. And that they don’t really care about

Mountain Dew Madness: What’s That Flame Retardant Doing in My Soda?

Feb 6, 2012BeateeChemical Policy, Green Living, Safe Foods, Toxics in Everyday Products, Toxins in Children's Productsbrominated vegetable oils, bromine, BVOs, Fanta, Fresca Citrus, Gatorade, health hazards, Mountain Dew, Powerade, soda

We all know that sodas are full of sugar, buy you may be surprised (and grossed out) to find that a chemical called brominated vegetable oil (BVO), a patented flame retardant, has also been added to approximately 10% of sodas for decades in North America. No need to worry about your soda catching on fire!