ban Brominated Vegetable Oil from use in the United States, as it is an unnecessary and dangerous food additive.

Brominated Vegetable Oil is used as a flame retardant, but is also found in 10 percent of the carbonated beverages in the United States. There are safer and more natural alternatives, such has natural hydrocolloids, are readily available.
The approval for this BVO was in 1977, and the toxicity has not been tested since. There is now better technology to determine the dangers of this drink to Americans.
85 percent of kids in America are drinking sodas laced with BVO, and independent studies have linked BVO's to major organ system damage, birth defects, growth problems, schizophrenia, and hearing loss.
This chemical is banned in over 100 countries, and many corporations in the United States already have products with safer ingredients.