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Food-grade titanium dioxide translocates across the oral mucosa in pigs and induces genotoxicity in an in vitro model of human oral epithelium
2022-07-05
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<h4>Background: </h4> Food-grade titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ), composed of nano- and submicron-sized particles, is used worldwide in various foodstuffs, toothpastes and pharmaceutical tablets as a whitening and opacifying agent. Its use as a food additive (E171 in EU) has raised concerns for human health regarding its systemic availability, tissue accumulation, genotoxicity and promotion of precancerous lesions. Howe...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0f9ec961-8f31-5261-b326-51ba0f03a21c
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1788223/v1
