A ban on various food additives found in popular snacks

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including cones

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passed the final vote in the California Legislature on Tuesday, sending the bill to the governor’s desk. Gavin Newsom.

The California Food Safety Act, the first of its kind in the country, would ban the manufacture, sale or distribution of brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propyl paraben and red food coloring

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The first version of the bill also proposed a ban on titanium dioxide, but the substance was not included in the version that passed the Senate on a 33-3 vote on Monday.

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The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills), passed a final procedural vote in the Assembly on its way to the governor on Tuesday.

If signed, the law would go into effect on January 1, 2027 and impose fines of up to $10,000 for violations.

Today’s bipartisan vote marks a huge step forward in our efforts to protect California children and families from dangerous and toxic chemicals in our food supply, Gabriel said in a news release. It is unacceptable that the US is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to food safety.”

The bill aims to make food safer in California. But there’s no intention to ban foods like Skittles, Gabriel said, so Californians probably don’t have to worry about the colorful treats disappearing from store shelves.

What they were really trying to do is change their recipes, Gabriel told The Times in March. These are all non-essential ingredients.

I like cones. I love Wild Berry cones. “I eat them all the time,” Gabriel said. I would vote against a bill to ban bowling.”

Gabriel noted that many of the chemicals included in the bill were already banned in other countries, with manufacturers using alternative substances.

I think the overwhelming likelihood of what will happen would be that they would make minor changes to their recipes, Gabriel said.

The bill caused some controversy online, but also received support from actor and former governor of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I’m proud of Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel for writing this bill,” Schwarzenegger wrote in an edition of his Pump Club newsletter this year, “and to everyone who asked, I’m happy to support it.”

“These things are not biased. They are based on common sense. It’s worth repeating: One of these ingredients has been banned from lipstick since 1990 because it caused cancer in lab rats,” Schwarzenegger said.