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Sponsor outlines multi-part public-health bill to ban additives, curb PFAS, restore local control of fluoridation
Summary
Rep. Bazzoli introduced House Bill 272, the PURE Life Act, proposing bans on several food additives and dyes, limits on PFAS, repeal of the state fluoridation mandate to restore local control, and a prohibition on cloud seeding; sponsors cited state precedents and LSC cost estimates.
Representative Bazzoli, sponsor of House Bill 272, told the House General Government Committee that the Protecting Utility and Resources for Enhanced Living, Improved Food and Environmental (PURE Life) Act would address public-health concerns by taking four specific steps: prohibit a targeted list of food additives and dyes, restrict certain PFAS uses, repeal the state-level fluoridation mandate to restore local decision-making, and ban cloud seeding.
"House Bill 272 is carefully crafted," Bazzoli said, describing the measure as bipartisan and grounded in policies enacted or proposed in other states. He…
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