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EU body says colourant found in UK products could cause cancer

The EU’s top court has also recently upheld a partial ban on three insecticides harming bees, much to the dismay of UK farmers.

Andra Maciuca by Andra Maciuca
2021-05-08 08:36
in Environment, News, Science
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A food colouring used in various products sold in the UK could cause cancer, the European Food Safety Authority has warned.

EFSA has proposed a EU-wide ban on titanium dioxide, commonly known as E171.

What foods contain titanium dioxide (E171)?

The white colourant is frequently used in food, such as white chocolate or chewing gum, but also in toothpaste and medicines.

The main categories exposing consumers to it through good are fine bakery products, soups, broths, sauces, salads, savoury sandwich spreads and processed nuts.

Prof Maged Younes, chair of EFSA’s expert panel on food additives and flavourings, 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”. 

Responses to the ban

EU health and food safety commissioner Stella Kyriakides said: “Following EFSA’s new scientific opinion on the food additive E171, we will propose to ban its use in the EU.

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“Discussions with member states will start this month.

“Our priority is the health of citizens and the safety of the food we eat.”

Following @EFSA_EU's new scientific opinion on the food additive E171, we will propose to ban its use in the EU.

🔹Discussions with Member States will start this month.

🔹Our priority is the health of citizens and the safety of the food they eat.#EUFoodSafety

— Stella Kyriakides (@SKyriakidesEU) May 6, 2021

A petition organised by consumers’ health organisation SAFE had gathered more than 85,000 signatures from European consumers.

It backed a 2020 ban on the colourant by the French government, arguing it “serves no nutritional purpose and may present health risks”.

Another ban on insecticides

The European Union’s top court has also upheld the EU’s ban on three insecticides, preventing their use on some crops because of their risk to bees.

The ban has been fought against in court by pharmaceutical giant Bayer, who developed two of the substances – and the fight has been supported by British farming organisation National Farmers Union (NFU).

NFU vice president Tom Bradshaw said the organisation is “disappointed” with the EU’s ruling.

He said: “This appeal was always very much about the way the EU Commission brought in the restrictions on neonicotinoids in the first place, and this judgment appears to allow the Commission to review the approval of active substances based on minimal evidence and use of the precautionary principle in a way that fails to consider the proportionality of decisions.

“Our intervention focused on errors we believe were made by the General Court; it allowed the EU Commission to bring in the restrictions without a proper cost-benefit analysis. The Commission didn’t assess the impacts on bees or on farmers when it brought in the restrictions and the Court didn’t hold the Commission to the requirements of the legislation which sets out how approvals are to be reviewed.”

Mr Bradshaw added: “That worried us as farmers both in respect of other plant protection products but also more widely.

“Now that the UK has left the EU, we hope that the UK will take a more scientific, evidence-led approach to the approval of plant protection products and will properly consider proportionality if it applies the precautionary principle. This way, both the agricultural industry and the environment should benefit.”

The London Economic has contacted Bayer for comment.

Related: Petition launched to stop EU banned bee-killing pesticide being reintroduced in UK

UK farmers given go-ahead to use bee-killing pesticide banned by EU

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