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Following pressure from a petition launched by food blogger Vani Hari, Subway announced on Thursday that it will be removing the chemical azodicarbonamide from the bread in its sandwiches.

As ABC News reported, the World Health Organization has linked the chemical, legal in Canada and the United States, to asthma, allergies and respiratory issues.

“It helps … produce the air within the foam of a yoga mat,” Hari told ABC News. “It does the same thing for bread.”

The petition Hari launched has garnered more than 50, 000 signatures, although Subway said was “already in the process of removing azodicarbonamide as part of our bread improvement efforts.”