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Short Stuff: Skittles and TIO2

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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There’s an ingredient in Skittles and lots of other food that Dunkin Donuts stopped using it in their powdered donuts. Skittles said they were phasing it out too back in 2016 but still haven’t and now the lawsuits flow like The Spice.

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0:29.6

Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh. There's Chuck Ben, Dave. Giddy up.

0:39.0

Hmm. All right, so this is one that is a little frustrating because I found over the years, I think we both agree that it's so hard sometimes to find follow-ups to legal matters.

0:51.0

Yeah. Like there's a lot of hay made when a lawsuit is put out there or introduced or whatever.

0:58.3

But then it's always so hard to find resolution and we're talking about the fact that in July 2022 a man in California filed a lawsuit

1:08.2

against Mars Incorporated because of Skittles and because specifically an additive called titanium dioxide

1:17.4

class action lawsuit that has health risks and I tried to find a follow-up and what I saw that that was dismissed.

1:25.0

Oh, was it? I didn't see that.

1:27.0

In November 22, without prejudice,

1:30.0

and that, which means a new lawsuit can happen and another woman in summer last year in

1:35.8

2023, like a year later, again in California has sued again and I don't know the status of

1:41.6

that one. The reason they're picking on Skittles in particular, it seems like, is because back in 2016, Skittles said to the world,

1:49.0

well I should say Mars Inc said to the world,

1:51.0

hey, we're not going to use titanium dioxide anymore.

1:54.5

We're going to phase it out of our candies, specifically skittles.

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