EU ROUND UP – TITANIUM DIOXIDE PAINT SPRAYS MAY RECEIVE EU CARCINOGENIC CLASSIFICATION
September 1st, 2017
A KEY European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) committee has ruled that the common whitening agent titanium dioxide should be recognised as carcinogenic within the European Union (EU) when inhaled. A formal recommendation that this health risk should be noted in an annex to the EU’s classification, labelling and packaging regulation (CLP) will come later this year. While this could have a future impact on the use and manufacture of sprayed paints using this chemical, the ECHA’s committee for risk assessment (RAC) however rejected calls from France that titanium ...
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