Potassium iodate is also a “generally regarded as safe,” or GRAS, under 21 CFR 184.1635, but is considered unsafe when used beyond those limits.

These sauces contain potassium iodate, an unsafe food additive that the FDA has flagged as potentially harmful when consumed in large quantities. The DPHSS Division of Environmental Health has ...

Yet potassium iodate pills, marketed as an essential component of nuclear apocalypse “go bags,” have no specific warnings of the risk of permanent blindness with overdosage, says Bernstein.

Before the alert went out on Oct. 25, affecting Filipino imports, owner Jack Deleon was selling about 5000 bottles of his banana ketchup (which doesn’t use potassium iodate) per month.

The solutions used typically included hydrogen peroxide, potassium iodate, and manganese sulfate. Hydrogen peroxide serves as an oxidising agent, while iodate ions are reduced to iodine through a ...

The US FDA issued import alert No. 99-45 on October 25 on products that are or contain unsafe food additives. Among the ingredients found in Philippine-made products were Benzoate, a preservative that ...

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