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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scores of common baked goods contain potassium bromate, a possible cancer-causing additive, according to a new analysis by Environmental Working Group. The nonprofit agency found the chemical in 86 ...

London — From baguettes to focaccia, Europe is famous for its bread. But there's one ingredient conspicuously missing: Potassium bromate. It's a suspected carcinogen that's banned for human ...

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 ...

Confronted with the reality of the sale of bread with bromate and its health implications, Abdullah, a bread fanatic, with a keener interest in ‘Agege Bread,’ exclaimed: “Cancer? For where? What we ...

The chemical compound bromate is formed when drinking water is disinfected through ozonation. At mg/L levels, bromate is potentially carcinogenic to mice and rats. Based on recent toxicological ...