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A Whiter Shade of Pale


Gabriele Heller discusses the classification of titanium dioxide

Year
2017
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Marabu GmbH & Co. KG
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Gabriele Heller
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Titanium dioxide is the white pigment used in manufacturing white ink shades, but also in high opaque coloured shades.

On 8 June 2017, the Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) of the European Chemicals Agency ECHA published its recommendation on the subject.

It suggests a harmonised classification of titanium dioxide as Carcinogen, Category 2 (‘suspected human carcinogen').

The industry, however, considers any classification of titanium dioxide as carcinogen to be neither justified nor appropriate, for the following reasons:

A Whiter Shade of Pale

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