{"id":26304,"date":"2024-11-07T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materialneutral.info\/?p=26304"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:31:48","slug":"statement-on-the-safety-of-titanium-dioxide-e171-as-a-food-additive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materialneutral.info\/en\/statement-on-the-safety-of-titanium-dioxide-e171-as-a-food-additive\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on the Safety of Titanium dioxide (E171) as a Food Additive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food grade titanium dioxide (TiO<sub>2<\/sub>) was an authorised Food Additive (E171) in the EU but from the 7th of August 2022 it is no longer permitted following the publication of Commission Regulation (EU) 2022\/63, amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1333.<\/p>\n<p>Since the EFSA and COT publications in 2021, reviews of TiO2 have also been carried out by Health Canada (2022), Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) (2022) and most recently by the Joint FAO\/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) (FAO\/WHO, 2024).<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 the COT concludes that it is unlikely that there would be a risk to health from current UK dietary exposures of E171 TiO<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>For the full statement, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/cot.food.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-10\/Final%20statement%20on%20TiO2%20Acc%20V%20SO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cot.food.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-10\/Final%20statement%20on%20TiO2%20Acc%20V%20SO.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on titanium dioxide, please visit our material pages: <a href=\"https:\/\/materialneutral.info\/en\/element\/titanium-dioxide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/materialneutral.info\/en\/element\/titanium-dioxide\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Committee on <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_cc620b51ff25781d3b94409bfe1fb7a5\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Toxicity<\/span> of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (<a href=\"https:\/\/cot.food.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COT<\/a>) in UK is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and Social Care, and other Government Departments and Agencies on matters concerning the toxicity of chemicals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food grade titanium dioxide (TiO2) was an authorised Food Additive (E171) in the EU but from the 7th of August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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