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Prof Maged Younes, Chair of EFSA’s expert Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF), said: “Taking into account all available scientific studies and data, the Panel concluded that titanium dioxide can no longer be considered safe as a food additive . A critical element in reaching this conclusion is that we could not exclude genotoxicity concerns after consumption of titanium dioxide particles. After oral ingestion, the absorption of titanium dioxide particles is low, however they can accumulate in the body”. 

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Second, the present invention provides a large-scale industrial production process with low production cost, high efficiency, energy saving, and stable product quality with an annual production capacity of several hundred thousand tons. Selective leaching of zinc by ammonia method, combined with ammonium persulfate iron removal, vulcanization method and zinc powder replacement method to remove heavy metal elements such as nickel, copper, lead, cadmium and arsenic, and metathesis reaction to obtain nZnS-B a S0 4 crystal filter cake. The nano-Lide powder product is obtained by directly drying and pulverizing without high-temperature calcination. The resulting product is of good quality and industrially operable.

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In a 2020 study published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, researchers conducted an in vitro experiment to analyze the effects of TiO2 nanoparticles on a human neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cell line. The scientists evaluated “reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, apoptosis, cellular antioxidant response, endoplasmic reticulum stress and autophagy.” The results showed that exposure to the nanoparticles “induced ROS generation in a dose dependent manner, with values reaching up to 10 fold those of controls. Nrf2 nuclear localization and autophagy also increased in a dose dependent manner. Apoptosis increased by 4- to 10-fold compared to the control group, depending on the dose employed.” 

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