FOOD ADDITIVES BANNED IN
EUROPE AMERICA BUT NOT
WRITTEN BY RILEY GEORGE
I
n
August
2022,
the
European
possibilities for potential risks, whereas
Commission banned titanium dioxide,
the U.S. focuses more on the probability
a food additive. This preservative
that a substance will cause harm. Europe
remains legal and unbanned in the U.S. With
has a reviewing system for food chemicals
countries that many assume are similar in
where it reevaluates foods that use
many aspects, what would prompt Europe to
previously approved chemicals.
ban titanium dioxide and the U.S. to not?
it can be interesting to see what foods or
the U.S. may not ban the same things that
additives are banned in Europe but legal
Europe does is due to the approach each
in the U.S.
takes. Some argue that Europe considers
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With different standards and procedures,
According to some sources, the reason that
