200. Brominated vegetable oils (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 48a)

200. Brominated vegetable oils (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 48a): " Brominated vegetable oils were considered at the Ninth FAO/WHO Expert Committee meeting of Food Additives (FAO/WHO, 1966) but not evaluated because of lack of suitable data. Attention was then drawn to the necessity for providing evidence on cumulation and subsequent release of bromine in body lipids. Recent evidence has demonstrated accumulation of bromine in the body lipids of the rat, pig and man (particularly children). Despite the absence of any definite pathological effects in man, it seems undesirable that lipid-bound bromine should accumulate in the tissues of man. Progressive cardiac lesions have been noted in the rat at comparatively high levels of intake. No long-term studies are available to define a no-effect level."

BVO is found in Mountain Dew. I've been wondering what BVO does. What I'm wondering is now is whether or not the payoff is there to risk it, considering the elements of it's safety that are unknown.