EC urged to ban E171
2019 saw food additive E171, titanium dioxide, come under sustained pressure from European civil society groups who raised concerns over the safety of the ingredient.
Camille Perrin, food policy lead at European consumer organisation BEUC, told us it was time the EU applied the precautionary principle and remove E171 from the list of permitted food additives. "Prevention is better than cure," she argued.
With food safety so high up the agenda and widespread mistrust of chemical sounding ingredients propelling the clean label trend, its easy to see why this was such a widely shared article in 2019.
