BBC Shorts: Coca-cola to remove drinks ingredient
The world's largest beverage-maker, Coca-Cola, plans to remove a controversial ingredient from some of its drinks brands by the end of this year, following an online petition.
Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is found in Coca-Cola fruit and sports drinks such as Fanta and Powerade. An element of the additive, also found in flame retardants, could have negative health effects, activists say. Read more here.
06 May 2014
- From the section World