PepsiCo Inc. to remove brominated vegetable oil from Gatorade

Thursday, March 14, 2013 | 12:40 p.m. CDT

SAN FRANCISCO — When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.

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