Florida attorney general investigates potassium bromate in food 2026

Potassium bromate strengthens dough and speeds industrial baking, a shortcut chemistry still legal across most of America's bakeries.

The WHO's cancer research arm classified potassium bromate 'possibly carcinogenic' in 1999, citing animal tumors.
The European Union, United Kingdom and Canada banned it decades ago; the US never followed.
Attorney General James Uthmeier opened Florida's investigation into the additive on July 13, 2026.

Why it matters: Other governments barred this compound decades ago; only now does a state investigation ask why it stayed.

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