The bill by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, would ban chemicals found in candy like Skittles, Starbursts and the bunny-shaped Peeps.
SACRAMENTO — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those radiant marshmallow chicks whose appearance on store shelves each year is as much a herald of spring as azaleas at the Masters.
Now, a state lawmaker wants to ban erythrosine and titanium dioxide in California, plus three other chemicals used in everyday favorites like tortillas and some store brand sodas. “They still produce Skittles in other parts of the world. What they do is they take out these toxic ingredients, and they replace them with something else,” Gabriel said. “What we really want is for these companies to make the same minor modifications to their recipes that they made in Europe and elsewhere.”
In addition to erythrosine and titanium dioxide, the bill would ban potassium bromate and propylparaben, two chemicals used in baked goods, and brominated vegetable oil, which is used in some store brand sodas. The International Association of Color Manufacturers argued in a 2021 statement that California study was “based on insufficient scientific evidence.”
“These scientifically based regulatory processes should be allowed to continue without second guessing their outcomes,” the letter stated.
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