Food Color Titanium Dioxide Proposed For Harmonized Classification As Suspected Of Causing Cancer

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The RAC opinion will be sent to the European Commission for final adoption.
European Union Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences

On June 9, 2017, the European Chemicals Agency announced that the Committee for Risk Assessment ("RAC") proposed to classify the food color titanium dioxide (E 171) as suspected of causing cancer when inhaled (Category 2 Carcinogen). Although France originally proposed to classify titanium dioxide as presumed to cause cancer (Category 1B Carcinogen), the RAC disagreed with this more severe classification, which likely would have led to a marketing ban of titanium dioxide in the European Union. The RAC opinion will be sent to the European Commission ("EC") for final adoption.

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