Comment is titanium dioxide toxic ? (Score 4, Interesting) 200
"European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)—an agency that issues scientific advice on food risks—evaluating the safety of the chemical as a food additive in a 2021 report. EFSA noted that it could not definitively say that titanium dioxide was toxic. "
"Back in 1979 the National Cancer Institute also evaluated the potential toxicity of titanium dioxide in food in rats and mice, exposing them to large amounts of the chemical for two full years, which is most of a rat’s lifetime. They found no indication that titanium dioxide in food could cause cancer."
From my knowledge, titanium dioxide is used in all sorts of things and is very inert in the human body. From a chemical and biochemical standpoint.
It's used in sunscreen and a lot of make up too. While removing it from food probably is okay, I actually don't see any evidence from studies in the past regarding toxicity.
For example. A titanium hip joint replacement is literally coated with titanium dioxide. Same with chromium. It's the oxide layer on the outside that prevents further attack to it. Which is why we put chromium or moly in stainless steels .
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican....
