Potassium Bromate (and others) not banned in USA

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U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

One expert says most Americans likely don't realize how many additives they're eating that European regulators shun — and it's "almost certainly" making them sick.

www.cbsnews.com

Potassium bromate: Effects on bread components, health, environment and method of analysis: A review - PubMed

Potassium bromate, is an oxidizing agent and one of the best and cheapest dough improvers in the baking industry. Due to its positive effects it plays a major role in the bread-making industry. Potassium bromate has significant effect on food biomolecules, such as starch and protein, as it...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Truth About Potassium Bromate

Potassium bromate is a food additive that can help bread dough hold together, but some studies have linked it with cancer in animals.

www.livescience.com

Food for thought (ba-dum-tss)

 

[Torn Mind]

Not a surprise. Government has business incentives in its own right and allowing such ingredients allows for greater revenue streams into the companies, which the then indirectly benefits government via taxation of the corporation itself and via income tax.

In addition, government is "pliable" to those with the resources to get into its ears, and food companies have a lot of money.

With that said....potassium bromate is a minor influence compared to the major constituent of white bread, which is the starch itself. The starch will increase appetite on contact, increase the frequency of hunger pangs to a two-hour cycle, and inhibit fat metabolism. Even the folic acid in the bread becomes a problem if one eats too much, and the starch makes it easy to eat too much.