china titanium dioxide powder uses

Inorganic pigment Lide powder, also known as zinc antimony white, is a mixed crystal of zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. It has many unique and excellent properties. Lide powder products form a series of products, such as high ZnS type, apparent treatment type, water dispersion. Type, light fastness, color type, etc., play an important role in industrial and agricultural production and daily life. Mainly used in coatings, paints, thermoplastics, thermosets, paper, etc., can replace some rutile by surface treatment or Ti0 2 coating.

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JECFA previously assessed titanium dioxide at its 13th meeting, at which time the expert committee assigned a “not specified” ADI for the additive due to an absence of significant absorption and a lack of toxicological effects in the available experimental animal and human studies. Since its original evaluation by JECFA, titanium dioxide has become a public point of contention, with its ban being introduced (and then subsequently withdrawn) in California legislation in 2023, a legal battle playing out in the EU over the additive’s ban and classification as a carcinogen in 2022, and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) calling titanium dioxide unsafe. However, supporters of titanium dioxide say that claims about its dangers are founded in unreliable studies, and some recent research has supported its safety as a food additive.

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