Coca-Cola drops harmful ingredient

Sarah Kavanagh, a teenager from the American state of Mississippi, has won against Coca-Cola in an online battle.

By gaining over 260,000 signatures in two online petitions, the teen has forced the beverages maker giant to remove a harmful ingredient from its drinks recipes.

Brominated Vegetable Oil is a stabilizer used in fruit-flavored drinks and also a flame-retardant, harmful to people when ingested in larger quantities, such as two liters or more.

Although the ingredient is has received the FDA approval, it’s use is forbidden in Europe and Japan.

The Coca-Cola company was forced, as a consequence of Kavanagh’s actions, to remove this ingredient from its products and announced that its drinks are ‘BVO free.’

Earlier this year, the Subway company was also the victim of an online petition and, consequently, was forced to remove an ingredient known as ‘yoga mat cereal’ from its bread.