Coca-Cola, PepsiCo to drop controversial ingredient

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are to remove a controversial ingredient from all their drinks.

Brominated vegetable oil had been the target of petitions on Change.org by a Mississippi teenager who wanted it out of PepsiCo’s Gatorade and Coca-Cola’s Powerade.

In her petitions, Sarah Kavanagh noted that the ingredient has been patented as a flame retardant and is not approved for use in Japan and the EU.