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Brominated Vegetable Oil

Level 4Significant concernsIn Winter's Dictionary

Brominated Vegetable Oil is a stabilizer — Stabilizer for flavoring oils in fruit-flavored beverages (less than 15 ppm)

Also: BVO

What it does

Stabilizer for flavoring oils in fruit-flavored beverages (less than 15 ppm)

Where you'll see it

Fruit-flavored beverages (less than 15 ppm)

What the research says

Bromine added to vegetable oil; on FDA's 'suspect list'.

Regulatory status

  • US FDA: ASP
  • Notes: Interim basis pending additional toxicological studies

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): putting them on the suspect list