date:Dec 17, 2012
percent of all beverages sold in the U.S.
However, BVO contains bromine, a chemical element often used in commercial flame retardants, and one that some studies have linked to a number of health-related ailments, including neurological disorder and fertility problems.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed BVO from its list of generally recognized as safe (GRAS) substances in 1970, the agency made an interim ruling about the ingredient in 1977 and determined that the totalit