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Senate passes bill to ban two food additives starting 2028
Summary
The Arkansas Senate approved SB9 to prohibit manufacture and sale of potassium bromate and propylparaben in food products beginning Jan. 1, 2028, after sponsor Senator Clarke Tucker (Davis in transcript) outlined health concerns cited in other countries.
The Arkansas Senate on March 25 approved SB9, the "Make Arkansas Healthy Again Act," a bill that would ban the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding or offer for sale of food products containing potassium bromate and propylparaben beginning Jan. 1, 2028.
Sponsor Senator Jimmy Dixon (appears as Senator Davis in the transcript) told colleagues the measure targets two additives used in breads, cookie dough and shelf-stable sweets because animal studies and other research raise public-health…
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