Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an increasingly health conscious world, there is some research that is encouraging many to stay clear of potassium bromate. The ...

Among the many unfamiliar ingredients you might find listed on the packaging of your favorite foods is the additive potassium bromate. While it's used in bread and other baked goods in the U.S., it's ...

Packaged bread is super convenient, but it is also often pumped full of additives and artificial ingredients to prolong shelf life. If buying sandwich bread like this, look out for these ingredients ...

WASHINGTON — The American Bakers Association has issued a baked foods ingredient pledge, a voluntary commitment to phase out the use of potassium bromate across the United States. An “overwhelming ...

Bread has been a dietary staple for thousands of years, but the loaves we find in today’s supermarket aisles are often far removed from the simple recipes of the past. Instead of just flour, water, ...

Senate Bill 93, dubbed the Food Safety Act, passed out of the Senate Public Health Committee Tuesday. It would ban the use of four chemicals in Illinois foods: brominated vegetable oil, red dye No. 3, ...

Introduced by Sen. Willie Preston, D-Chicago, the Illinois Food Safety Act (SB 2637) would ban brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, red dye No.3 and titanium dioxide from retail ...