These drugs that threaten us

02/05/2022 By acomputer 731 Views

These drugs that threaten us

Thousands of pharmaceutical or food products contain titanium dioxide. A health bomb!

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By Axelle Noirhomme
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Its nickname: E171 or titanium dioxide. Its main “qualities”: to whiten and make drugs shine. It is also used in food: in chewing gum, pastries and industrial soups… Harmful? Not if we are to believe the new French consumer magazine "Kali", which has studied nanoparticles and is sounding the alarm. Surrounded by doctors, toxicologists and pharmacists, the media flushed out the presence of nanoparticles in our lives and the surprise is huge! Christelle Pangrazzi, the editor-in-chief, is categorical: “Nearly a third of medicines contain titanium dioxide. We published the list of the 800 most prescribed drugs, we had to make a choice because we could have published a list of 4,500 references! There are treatments that you take once in a while, such as Dafalgan, Spasfon, Voltaren or Nicorette tablets, to name but a few.

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