Dunkin’ Donuts strips munchkins of their nanoparticles

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"Under pressure from the public interest group As You Sow, the company has agreed to stop using the whitening agent used in its powdered sugar donuts. Independent laboratory tests, commissioned by As You Sow in 2013, showed the powdered sugar used by the company contains titanium dioxide nanoparticles, substances engineered to have extremely small dimensions and frequently used in food, paper, paint, and sunscreen.

"As You Sow claims the nanoparticles may result in toxicity for human health and the environment. “Preliminary studies show that nanomaterials can cause DNA and chromosomal damage, organ damage, inflammation, brain damage, and genital malformations, among other harms,” the interest group said in a statement.

“But Andrew Maynard, director of the University of Michigan’s Risk Science Center, is not so sure the scientific evidence justifies pressuring Dunkin’ Donuts to make such a move. Titanium dioxide doesn’t appear to cause adverse health problems, he toldThe Conversation, it just makes foods look better. It’s the reason the powdered sugar coating on donuts appears so dense and snow white.”

Dunkin’ Donuts strips munchkins of their nanoparticles
worldmag.com/2015/03/dunkin_donuts_strips_munchkins_of_their_nanoparticles
 
The sugar is probably more dangerous than the titanium dioxide.
 
Titanium dioxide is also in toothpaste. I wonder why they didn’t mention that?

But as has been said, the sugar is probably much worse!
 
WilliamOK said:
"Under pressure from the public interest group As You Sow, the company has agreed to stop using the whitening agent used in its powdered sugar donuts. Independent laboratory tests, commissioned by As You Sow in 2013, showed the powdered sugar used by the company contains titanium dioxide nanoparticles, substances engineered to have extremely small dimensions and frequently used in food, paper, paint, and sunscreen.

"As You Sow claims the nanoparticles may result in toxicity for human health and the environment. “Preliminary studies show that nanomaterials can cause DNA and chromosomal damage, organ damage, inflammation, brain damage, and genital malformations, among other harms,” the interest group said in a statement.

“But Andrew Maynard, director of the University of Michigan’s Risk Science Center, is not so sure the scientific evidence justifies pressuring Dunkin’ Donuts to make such a move. Titanium dioxide doesn’t appear to cause adverse health problems, he toldThe Conversation, it just makes foods look better. It’s the reason the powdered sugar coating on donuts appears so dense and snow white.”

Dunkin’ Donuts strips munchkins of their nanoparticles
worldmag.com/2015/03/dunkin_donuts_strips_munchkins_of_their_nanoparticles
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It is never good to put metal derivatives in your body. Always read the " contents " label and if you don’t understand it, don’t use that product.

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