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 ...

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, ...

Walking down the bread aisle at your local grocery store, you might assume every loaf meets basic safety standards. Yet hidden in those soft, fluffy slices is a chemical additive that has sparked ...