Florida Attorney General Targets A Flour Additive Linked To Cancer
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.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (My Florida Legal press release) ↗ · Jul 14, 20267/14/26 · ✓ Checked✓ Check