Health: 800 of the most prescribed drugs contain titanium dioxide, according to “Kali” magazine – franceinfo

The consumer magazine Kali publishes a dossier devoted to nanoparticles harmful to our health but omnipresent in our daily life and notes that “800 drugs” among the most prescribed “contain titanium dioxide“, affirms on franceinfo Christelle Pangrazzi, its editor in chief, Wednesday December 22 on franceinfo. Titanium dioxide is a substance considered as possible carcinogen.

“It is found in Doliprane, Spasfon, Imodium but also many other drugs that people can take on a daily basis.”

Christelle Pangrazzi, editor-in-chief of “Kali”

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Gold, “titanium dioxide is banned in food because it is probably carcinogenic when ingested, definite carcinogen when inhaled”, specifies the journalist. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) ruled in May that titanium dioxide, also known as the color E171, could no longer be considered safe as a food additive. France has banned the placing on the market of foodstuffs containing this additive as of January 1, 2020, following the recommendations of the National Food Safety Agency (Handles).

This carbon dioxide would serve “simply to whiten drugs or make them brighter, continues Christelle Pangrazzi. Today there is a reluctance of drug manufacturers, laboratories, to modify these compositions by explaining that patients prefer to have whiter drugs. “

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The magazine Kali request “regulatory changes concerning nanoparticles” in drugs but also in food, cosmetics and clothing. “These are extremely small substances that can lodge in the heart of cells and possibly modify them. […] They are very numerous and we ask for the withdrawal of some of them, the most dangerous and some where studies converge by explaining that there are probably health risks “.

An online petition and a request for regulatory change will be sent to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Ecological Transition, assures Christelle Pangrazzi.