EU Mulls Ruling Overturning Common Whitener as Cancer-Causing

The European Commission said Friday it was assessing a European Union court decision that overturned the bloc’s classification of the widely used substance titanium dioxide as carcinogenic.

The commission, the EU’s executive, had yet to decide whether to appeal the ruling, said spokesman Adalbert Jahnz.

“We take note of the court ruling and we will study it carefully,” he said.

The commission in 2019 classified titanium dioxide as a carcinogen when inhaled in powder form. But the EU’s lower court, the General Court, on Nov. 23 annulled that decision because it hadn’t been based on “reliable and acceptable studies.”

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