Friday is the last day for California lawmakers to pass bills in the house in which they originated.
contains one of those chemicals — titanium dioxide — meaning that, if the bill is passed into law, the brand must either change its recipe or halt the sale of the product in California altogether.
“Californians shouldn’t have to worry that the food they buy in their neighborhood grocery store might be full of dangerous additives or toxic chemicals,” Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, the bill’s author, said in announcing the legislation. “This bill will correct for a concerning lack of federal oversight and help protect our kids, public health, and the safety of our food supply.”Skittles’ parent company Mars Inc. would opt to change recipes before it abandons the California market. Mars Inc. publicly opposes the legislation and has not commented on what it would do if Newsom signs it into law.
Originally, the bill was written so it applied to all businesses in California, but it was amended to businesses with annual revenues of more than $25 million to align with the state’s consumer privacy law, which only applies to businesses that make more than $25 million per year.
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