European Commission urged to ban food additive E171: «Prevention is better than cure»
A joint letter requesting the Commission ban the use of titanium dioxide, or food additive E171, across the bloc has been penned by nine EU-level civil society organisations.
In the letter to European Commission vice-president Jykri Katainen, the organisations demand the removal of E171 from the EU list of permitted additives.
The letter comes just days after France announced plans to ban the additive in food products from January 2020. According to France's health and safety agency (ANSES), a lack of evidence guaranteeing the safety of titanium dioxide informed the decision.