Comment by verall
1 year ago
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
1 year ago
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?
I'm not really confident at all since the paper you linked doesn't mention anything about it and I'm no expert in small particles.
My intuition though, given this line from the paper:
> TiO2 is used extensively in many commercial products, including paints and varnishes, cosmetics, plastics, paper, and food as an anticaking or whitening agent.
is that TiO2 in food where it is primarily eaten might less risky than existing exposure in i.e. paint.
Like I said, I'm no expert, but nearly any small particle (flour, ground spices, SiO2, etc) are serious occupational risks for airborne exposure but are not considered to be dangerous to consume.
Given this, the paper you linked isn't very convincing to me about needing to ban TiO2 in food, but is yet more info that nearly every industrial worker probably needs PAPRs to avoid serious increase in cancer risk from small airborne particulates.