Safer Pizza? NY Set to Ban Common Carcinogenic Bread Ingredient

AT LONG LAST, NY WILL FINALLY PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM A CARCINOGENIC BREAD INGREDIENT

Honestly, at this point I only seem to find out about deadly food ingredients only after I’ve been eating them for years. The latest instance of this is hearing about how NY State is looking to ban what is apparently a totally common bread making ingredient that is also apparently totally carcinogenic. And what does common mean, at least in terms of the bread made in NY? Well, it seems that most of the bread made in NY has contains this not-at-all-good-for-you ingredient, the not too tasty mouthful that is potassium bromate. And what in the hell is that? It’s a flour additive that makes dough springier, fluffier, chewier, more consistent and easier to bake.

POTASSIUM BROMATE HAS BEEN BANNED IN EUROPE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS ALREADY

Well it sure sounds like potassium bromate has a lot of good things going for it when it comes to good bread making, right? Except for that possibly carcinogenic detail. Let’s take a look at that, shall we? It “has been linked to various cancers, along with thyroid disease, kidney damage, gut irritation and reproductive abnormalities. In 1999, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), categorized potassium bromate as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” Oh, ok, that sounds like possibly sounds more like kind of likely. But WAIT. Wait just one minute, but only one more minute longer than 27 freaking years. Because it was before freaking Y2K that the IARC thought this ingredient was carcinogenic.

Related:

https://www.theblot.com/artificial-sweeteners-generations/

BREAD MAKERS SAY BAN WILL MAKE THEIR BREAD MORE EXPENSIVE, DESPITE EUROPE’S CHEAPER, BETTER BREAD

That’s a long time to let tens of millions of New Yorkers eat something that could give them a long, painful, expensive death. So what has changed now? I mean, even though Europe banned it in freaking 1990, is also banned in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, China, and many other countries. And hey, China is the biggest consumer market on the planet. So what changed? Well, obvious public safety concerns, of course. And maybe that California is banning it next year. We’ll have to wait and see if the new New York state bill which has passed the state’s Assembly and Senate with a maybe by a maybe veto-proof majority gets signed by Governor Hochul to become law. Hey, only 80-90% of New York commercial bread makers use this carcinogenic ingredient…..

Commercial bread makers, by the by, say not using this deadly ingredient will make their breads more expensive. So how come European bread which tastes better and is better for you, is also a lot cheaper? Shouldn’t NY have safer Pizza and bagels to eat that taste better and cost less?