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 ...

If you've been keeping up with the latest food news, you might have heard about California's proposed ban on certain food additives, including potassium bromate. But what exactly is potassium bromate, ...

Over time, bread has remained a staple food consumed by most families worldwide, including Nigeria. It has emerged as one of the most popular meal options that can be combined with various nuts, seeds ...

14 years after the NAFDAC ban on carcinogenic bromate, researches across the country have raised questions over compliance by bakers and whether the regulatory body is indeed ensuring compliance.

In 2007, Chinese authorities pulled a batch of imported snack chips from store shelves because they believed the chips contained potassium bromate, a food additive banned in China. The chips' country ...

The government said that seven out of 79 brands of bottled water were found to contain bromate, a suspected carcinogen, exceeding international guidelines for drinking water quality. The National ...

Adeyeye said bakeries caught in the act would face the full consequences. NAFDAC arrests salesgirl, impounds over 120 bags of fake rice in Rivers N News Agency Of Nigeria Follow NAFDAC has warned ...

In recent years, it has become increasingly vital to determine volumes of bromate in both mineral and drinking waters, as it has been determined to be a potential carcinogen. Bromate is produced by ...

THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES must drain 600 million gal of water—about a day's supply—from two reservoirs after discovering high levels of bromate, a suspected carcinogen. The bromate appears to have ...

Perchlorate salts are used as “rocket fuel” in electroplating and other industries; yet, in 1999 (C&EN article) it was scientifically proven to inhibit the human thyroid gland’s absorption of iodine — ...