Vani Hari on titanium dioxide: warns against

Hari includes titanium dioxide on her dye/whitening hit list, noting that it is banned in the EU over potential DNA damage concerns. She supported the As You Sow campaign that got Dunkin’ Donuts to remove it from its powdered sugar in March 2015, per Earth911 and the iHeart episode summary of her position.

Her stated reasoning is the U.S.-versus-Europe comparison she applies across her campaigns: if European regulators judged the whitening agent unsafe enough to ban, she argues, U.S. consumers shouldn’t be eating it either. The Dunkin’ Donuts result is her proof that targeted pressure can get the ingredient out of a major brand’s supply chain.

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