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Hair Waving
Published in Dale H. Johnson, Hair and Hair Care, 2018
In the United States today only hydrogen peroxide enjoys any substantial commercial popularity as the active oxidant in hair waving neutralizers, although in the past bromates were also used commercially. However, hydrogen peroxide is cheaper, faster, effective at lower concentrations, and leaves hair feeling softer that bromates. Another reason for the popularity of hydrogen peroxide is safety. Hydrogen peroxide has an excellent safety profile while that of bromates has been questioned. However, recent investigations indicate that bro-mates can be used safely.
Food Additives
Published in Dongyou Liu, Handbook of Foodborne Diseases, 2018
Bromine, a chemical belonging to the same group as chlorine and iodine, is a food additive found in flour and some fruit-flavored soft drinks. By competing with iodine, bromine disrupts the thyroid gland and interferes with the production of thyroid hormones, leading to hypothyroidism. In addition, potassium bromate is a category 2B carcinogen, which has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals. While banned from use as a food additive in Europe and Canada, bromine is still used in baked goods and soft drinks in the United States [34,35].
Oral administration of a potassium bromate dosage: Determination and evaluation of accumulated bromate on the liver of male mice
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2022
Mousa Othman Germoush, Ibrahim Hotan Alsohaimi, Ayoub Abdullah Alqadami, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Hazim Mohammed Ali, Mohammad Saad Algamdi, Abdullah Mohammed Aldawsari
A stock solution (1000 mg L−1) of bromate was prepared by dissolving 1.304 g of potassium bromate in 1 liter deionized water. Then, dissolve a series of concentrations ranging from 0.005 to 0.080 mg L−1 was prepared from the standard bromate for both instrument calibration and standard addition purposes. From the stock solution of BrO3−, different concentration doses (0.01, 0.025, 0.10, 1, 10, and 30 mg L−1) were prepared in order to give the mice groups in drinking water by mouth.