What Was That Blue Substance Sprayed At A Miami Gender Reveal Party?

Some people are raising their eyebrows after a social media post showed a helicopter releasing blue substance over a South Florida beach.

Local 10 reported that this was happening at a gender reveal party hosted by a Miami-Dade police officer at Haulover Beach on Sunday (December 6). A company called Gender Reveal Miami posted a video of the flyover to Instagram, calling it "the most epic reveal ever." The footage also showed attendants cheering and cannons spraying blue confetti at the beach.

Reporters learned from the helicopter company that the "blue powder is cornstarch-based, adding that it is non-toxic, can be consumed, won’t harm any animals and dissolves in the water." Local 10 also reached out to Gender Reveal Miami, who confirmed the company provided the smoke bombs, photography and the helicopter. They did not provide the confetti.

Comments were left on the Instagram post wondering if the confetti will be cleaned up or is biodegradable. With nowhere to go, the leftover party bits would blow over the beach and into the ocean.

“If you’re going to have a party, OK, whatever, that’s not my judgement to make, but to have a party, to be dumping stuff in the water, dumping stuff all over the beach, and then not care at all, something about that feels gross,” Natasha Tomchin told Local 10, who was at the beach when it happened.

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