talc titanium dioxide suppliers

In a small study published in the European Journal of Nutrition in 2020, researchers examined the effects of several food additives, including titanium dioxide, along with artificial sweeteners and cleaning products by testing the fecal samples of 13 people. Titanium dioxide was among the samples that “induced significant shifts in microbiome community structure.”  The growth of the bacterium species belonging to C. leptum, which has been shown to decrease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, “significantly decreased in the presence of … titanium dioxide” among other additives and sweeteners tested.

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Quite obviously mixtures of grades different from the above may be prepared by adding varying quantities of the ingredients named or of certain other ingredients in addition, such as kaolin, and then subjecting the whole to a mixing process, the higher grades of the lithopone containing the higher percentages of zinc sulfid. This has up to the present time been the actual method pursued in making commercial lithopone of different grades, although one not eminently satisfactory.

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