Comment by RIMR
1 year ago
Yeah, but are there verified harms that would justify banning it? You're only listing its uses, which aren't of any real concern.
1 year ago
Yeah, but are there verified harms that would justify banning it? You're only listing its uses, which aren't of any real concern.
There are no verified harms that I know of, but I believe the concern is that emerging science on nanoparticles generally and titanium dioxide in particular has changed the perception of risk vs. benefit in some contexts. It's turned into essentially weighing "brighter Skittles" vs. "this suddenly looks more like a potential carcinogen than previously thought" [1].
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-160/pdfs/2011-160.pdf
Looks like this is fully about breathing airborne TiO2, which doesn't seem like a big problem if it's fully within the food dye
How confident are you, expressed as a percentage, that the TiO2 is "fully" (i.e. 100%) within the food dye when you bite down on a stale bit of candy coating?
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