titanium dioxide cost suppliers. If there are multiple suppliers offering similar products, they may need to adjust their prices to attract customers. This can lead to price wars and fluctuations in the cost of titanium dioxide. Additionally, suppliers may offer discounts or incentives to customers in order to secure long-term contracts and maintain a steady revenue stream.Overall, the Food Directorate's comprehensive review of the available science of TiO2 as a food additive showed:
On November 23, 2022, the General Court of the European Union reversed the conclusion that titanium dioxide was carcinogenic and released a statement (1,2):
“First, the Commission made a manifest error in its assessment of the reliability and acceptability of the study on which the classification was based and, second, it infringed the criterion according to which that classification can relate only to a substance that has the intrinsic property to cause cancer.”
As part of our mission at CRIS we base our safety assessments on the currently available scientific evidence and consider many variables (e.g., study quality, journal of publication, etc.), even if it goes against previous conclusions. Evidence-informed decisions making is critical to ensure that the laws and regulations put into place are for the benefit of the population.
The EU General Court maintains that the scientific evidence presented wasn’t the complete picture for the ingredient, “in the present case, the requirement to base the classification of a carcinogenic substance on reliable and acceptable studies was not satisfied.”