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Food and Cosmetics: Pollutants

Asked by Esther McVeyConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 5 September 2024UIN 2887

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential risk of titanium dioxide in (a) food and (b) cosmetics.

Answered by Andrew Gwynne

The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment have assessed the safety of titanium dioxide. The COT has concluded that it is unlikely that there would be a risk to health from current United Kingdom dietary exposures of E 171 titanium dioxide.

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