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Monthly Challenge
Reading Labels
Do you know what you eat and drink?
On August 7, 2022, the European data and studies on titanium dioxide.
Commission banned titanium dioxide The panel couldn’t rule out concerns
as a food additive, but in the US, it that the food additive might be able
continues to be actively used and can to damage DNA and possibly lead to
be found in a wide variety of every cancer. They explained that after you
day products like milk, coffee creamer, eat something that has titanium dioxide
salad dressings, candy and sweets, in it, your body absorbs low levels of its
chewing gums, vitamin supplements particles – but the particles can build up
and more. as you eat more foods with this additive.
Titanium dioxide is a powder that’s The challenge of the month for all of
used as a white pigment, the whitest us is to start reading labels and lists of
and brightest of all known pigments. ingredients of everything we consume
It boosts white opacity because of internally and externally. You might
how well it scatters light. This quality want to have a magnifying glass with
attracts manufacturers to add it in you next time you shop as these lists are
everything to make things white and often printed in tiny font size.
bright like sunscreens, cosmetics,
paints, and plastics. The pigment Please don’t forget to share your
grade is also known as titanium white, findings with us. Here is a longer list of
pigment white 6, or CI 77891. dangerous ingredients you can find in
the foods and drinks you like.
The decision of the European
Commission to ban the use titanium My Indigo Sun team
dioxide was based on a 2021 report
from an expert panel at the European Reference:
Food Safety Authority, which reviewed https://www.webmd.com/diet/titanium-dioxide-in-food
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