Missouri and Washington are the latest states to introduce bills to ban four food additives—brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3—following the recently passed California Food Safety Act prohibiting the same four additives. If passed, both the Missouri and Washington bills would come into effect on January 1, 2027, and would end the sale, delivery, distribution, holding, or offering for sale foods containing any of the four additives in each state.
New York and Illinois have also introduced similar legislation in the 2024 Session. Most recently, California introduced another bill to ban seven more additives—all food colorants—from foods served in public schools, including titanium dioxide, which was targeted in the original draft of the California Food Safety Act but was negotiated out before the bill was passed.