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California Bans Schools From Serving Froot Loops, Other Artificially Colored Food

A 2021 state study linked the dyes to 'adverse neurobehavioral effects, such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and restlessness in sensitive children'

International Business Times

The growing push for school lunch reform

From floating Lunchables bans to legislative battles, those concerned about school nutrition are speaking up

Salon

California may ban some food dyes in school meals. Will other states follow?

Consumer groups say it’s past time to rid food of unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals

The Guardian - US

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Here are the concerns with artificial food dyes, as California weighs a ban in schools

Six artificial food dyes and titanium dioxide would be banned in schools under a proposal in the state legislature. Critics say there isn't enough evidence to prove they're a health risk.

WEKU

Jewish protesters calling for cease-fire in Gaza disrupt first day of California legislative session

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war have disrupted the first day of California's legislative session

The Independent UK

California becomes the first state to ban 4 food additives linked to disease

Brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3, which can be found in candy, cookies and more, will be banned starting in 2027 due to links to cancer other health effects.

WEKU

California is first state to levy a tax on guns and ammo to fund safety programs

New law will impose an additional 11% in addition to federal tax. It's one of nearly two dozen gun laws signed into law on Tuesday. but Newsom acknowledges some might not survive legal challenges.

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New bill to ban toxic chemicals in food

"Things like this aren’t partisan. They’re common sense," said former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Salon

Oil and Gas Lobbying Threatens California’s Game-Changing Climate Bills

Legislation aims to shine a light on corporate climate pollution and carbon offsets.

Capital & Main

Uyghur Activists Praise Jewish Support

When Chinese government officials burn Korans, demolish mosques, prevent the practice of Islam and carry out the “systematic genocide of Muslims in the Uyghur region regularly,” Islamic countries and ordinary Muslims do not speak out

Zenger

California Democrat tries again to tax guns, ammunition. Here’s how much state would charge

A California Democrat is continuing a years-long push to impose a state tax on guns and ammunition that lawmakers have long debated with little success.

Tribune News Service

California lawmaker wants Peeps to change its ingredients

A bill in the California Legislature would ban five chemicals found in some of the most popular candy in the U.S. The bill by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel would ban chemicals found in candy like Skittles, Starbursts and Peeps

The Independent UK

Robin Abcarian: Relax, candy lovers. No one is trying to ban Skittles. Well, not exactly

Scratch the surface of a Skittles and, wow, you will find so much more than a chewy fruit-flavored sugar bomb. The shiny candy is a bit like a Rorschach test; you see what you want to see in those rainbow-colored morsels.

Los Angeles Times

So long, red dye No. 3? Why lawmakers want to cancel a chemical found in your Skittles and strawberry Yoohoo

Skittles, strawberry Yoohoo and Walmart yogurt-dipped pretzels — what do these all have in common? They contain the controversial red dye No. 3 or titanium dioxide, which some California lawmakers are now waging war against.

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Why candy lovers shouldn’t panic over California’s ‘Skittle ban’

Bill aims to ban chemicals that appear in the candy, perhaps setting an example nationwide

Tribune News Service

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The Independent UK

Skittles could be banned in California unless ‘toxic’ ingredient is changed

State concerned over foods containing certain additives

Reason

TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban

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Los Angeles Times

End of the rainbow? California bill would ban sales of Skittles, other 'toxic' snacks

LOS ANGELES — The snack and candy aisles at your local grocery store could soon carry fewer items if a bill proposed by California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel is voted into law.

Los Angeles Times

California already has nation's strictest gun laws. Mass shootings could spur push to go further

After a deadly wave of mass shootings in the United States last year — including one in Buffalo, New York, and another at a school in Uvalde, Texas — that collectively killed 31, California's Democratic-controlled Legislature responded by quickly passing more than a dozen laws meant to prevent gun violence…

Los Angeles Times

California lawmakers pass new social media protections for minors

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers passed legislation designed to protect the privacy and well-being of minors on social media and shield them from predators and exploitative commercialization on internet platforms.

Los Angeles Times

Plastics industry, facing crackdown, targets Democrats with mailers deemed deceptive

LOS ANGELES — Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flyer in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a line stating, “Higher taxes on plastic products will enrich corporate interests with no guarantee of reducing plastic waste.”

Tribune News Service

Should rich Californians get gas price, inflation relief? Newsom, Democrats weigh options

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California leaders all agree that residents need some kind of relief from inflation and soaring gasoline prices — but who should qualify? Drivers? Those in lower income brackets? All taxpayers?

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