France will ban titanium dioxide in food products starting in 2020, the government announced.
The ministers of ecology and economy said they made the April 17 decision to bar the sale of food products containing the E171 additive in France as a precautionary measure. The move came after an opinion from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Safety.
In its April 15 opinion, the agency—known as ANSES—said there wasn’t enough data to decide how much of the additive is safe.
“In particular, no acceptable daily intake can be set for it, because of the ...
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