Safety assessment of titanium dioxide (E171) as a food additive

Safety assessment of titanium dioxide (E171) as a food additive

Abstract The present opinion deals with an updated safety assessment of the food additive titanium dioxide (E 171) based on new relevant scientific evidence considered by the Panel to be reliable, including data obtained with TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and data from an extended one‐generation reproduc...

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Main Authors:	EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF), Maged Younes, Gabriele Aquilina, Laurence Castle, Karl‐Heinz Engel, Paul Fowler, Maria Jose Frutos Fernandez, Peter Fürst, Ursula Gundert‐Remy, Rainer Gürtler, Trine Husøy, Melania Manco, Wim Mennes, Peter Moldeus, Sabina Passamonti, Romina Shah, Ine Waalkens‐Berendsen, Detlef Wölfle, Emanuela Corsini, Francesco Cubadda, Didima De Groot, Rex FitzGerald, Sara Gunnare, Arno Christian Gutleb, Jan Mast, Alicja Mortensen, Agnes Oomen, Aldert Piersma, Veronika Plichta, Beate Ulbrich, Henk Van Loveren, Diane Benford, Margherita Bignami, Claudia Bolognesi, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria Dusinska, Francesca Marcon, Elsa Nielsen, Josef Schlatter, Christiane Vleminckx, Stefania Barmaz, Maria Carfí, Consuelo Civitella, Alessandra Giarola, Ana Maria Rincon, Rositsa Serafimova, Camilla Smeraldi, Jose Tarazona, Alexandra Tard, Matthew Wright
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2021-05-01
Series:	EFSA Journal
Subjects:	Titanium dioxide E 171 CAS No 13463‐67-7
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6585

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