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I once ate some yogurt covered pretzels from the gas station. The next day my poop was nearly white. I checked the ingredients on those pretzels. Ingredient 1 (meaning highest concentration by weight) was titanium dioxide. There was less pretzel than TiO2. What the fuck?!?
For the record, I don't eat food without checking the ingredients anymore, like, ever. That incident taught me that the old ways of sawdust in the breadflour haven't gone away, they've just been hidden.
Also main ingredient of white paint
I was completely ready to argue with the EU assessment on this, but they did provide proper citations and links to the actual studies.
Hard to argue with that.
In rats and petri dishes. Not saying that's not enough to be cautious or even ban it, but far from conclusive
no reason not to restrict something thats only used for cosmetics and may be potentially harmful
Still, it identified one very specific mechanism/interaction with the mice brain composition. That alone warrants a lot of caution, but I'm no expert.
The EU goes with the principle of precaution. The idea being that if something looks like it might be toxic, it's probably best to remove it from the market.
Apparently in the US you first have to prove that it has decimated several families.
Unless it's guns of course
Dont say that. Ask about roundup/bayer, they think being a massive cancer rise for decades was fine. Just all those weak people that actually got cancer that made it an issue. /s
The USA were pretty fine with it, until Monsanto was bought by a foreign company.
It kind of makes sense at the scale of hundreds of millions of people, because:
Something this common will have measurable effects, making it easy to prove in theory.
There are many cases in the past of people lobbying to ban anything used by their competitors, such as Sassafras being banned in the cola wars which is still illegal to this day.
Admittedly, haven't read it yet π
Fair enough, but that still technically only tells you something about the effect it has on the murine brain, not necessarily the human one
Why are you dissenting without reading the underlying?
Any objection or opinion you might have is entirely discredited.
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