Brominated Vegetable Oil
Level 4 — Significant 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