March 14, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When PepsiCo Inc. announced
it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade
right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from
a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of
the ingredient. "I was like, 'Whoa,'" said Sarah Kavanagh, a
16-year-old from Hattiesburg, Miss., who wanted to know how an
oil that contains a chemical also found in flame retardants got
into her favorite sports drink. After she posted a petition on
Change.org asking Pepsi to remove it, more than 200,000 people
signed. "I just wanted to make sure it was something that I
could drink," said the teen. From oil in Gatorade to the amount
of caffeine and other stimulants in energy drinks and the so-
called "pink slime" found in beef, previously unnoticed
ingredients are coming under scrutiny as health-conscious
consumers demand more information about what they eat and drink,
and sometimes go public via social networking and the Internet.
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