products with titanium dioxide

CSPI’s Chemical Cuisine is the web’s definitive rating of the chemicals used to preserve foods and affect their taste, texture, or appearance. Besides titanium dioxide, the group recommends avoiding artificial sweeteners like aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose, as well as synthetic food dyes like Yellow 5 and Red 3. CSPI and others have recently asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the latter dye in foods and ingested drugs because the FDA has already determined that it is a carcinogen unsafe for use in cosmetics.

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Chinese manufacturers adhere to strict quality control standards, ensuring that their anatase TiO2 meets international specifications. The 99.6% purity level is achieved through sophisticated purification techniques, including leaching, precipitation, and calcination processes. These methods remove impurities such as iron, sulfur, and organic compounds, resulting in a product with exceptional whiteness, brightness, and dispersion properties.

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