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# Petition for removal of azodicarbonamide (ADA) from food
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/peition_0310140914/
- Published: 2014-03-10T22:12:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:06:35.000Z
- Description: The Environmental Working Group says its analysis found azodicarbonamide — a foaming agent for plastics used as a dough conditioner in baked goods — in nearly 500 foods, and is petitioning Pillsbury, Sara Lee, Tyson, Kroger and other brands to stop using it.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Chemical, Food Safety, #vivvo-import

Dear Readers,

Our food should be food!

When the Food Babe, Vani Hari, challenged Subway to remove azodicarbonamide - a chemical used to make yoga mats - from its bread, EWG suspected this was only the tip of the iceberg and decided to find out what other foods contain ADA. Our analysis found it in nearly 500 foods.

Now we're taking the fight to major brands, including Pillsbury, Sara Lee, Shoprite, Safeway, Smucker's, Fleischman's, Jimmy Dean, Kroger, Little Debbie, Tyson and Wonder. **We need you to add your voice to tell these food brands to stop using the same chemical found in yoga mats and flip-flops.**

[**Click here to add your name to EWG's petition demanding that major brands stop using azodicarbonamide!**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=zEnSI1m%2BnK7WLee14KRAhlCFU77Zzq9r&ref=foodconsumer.org)

This chemical, nicknamed ADA, is used in the plastics industry as a "foaming agent" and in the food industry as a dough conditioner for the convenience of industrial bakers.

In the plastics industry, it is mixed into polymer plastic gel to generate tiny gas bubbles, something like champagne for plastics. The results are materials that are strong, light, spongy and malleable. In many commercial baked goods, ADA is used as a "dough conditioner" that renders large batches of dough easier to handle and makes the finished products puffier and tough enough to withstand shipping and storage.

**Food should be food - not contain chemical foaming agents. We need you to take a stand today and add your voice to our petition!**

[**Click here to tell Pillsbury, Sara Lee and many others that you want ADA removed from food!**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=ghHQ1XThdizAK3dkV7EXG1CFU77Zzq9r&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thank you for taking action!

Sincerely,  
  
Ken Cook  
President, Environmental Working Group

[Contribute](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=8O3%2BWoGM0U6%2FqO8EUB23V1CFU77Zzq9r&ref=foodconsumer.org)