Improving risk assessment of nano particles as food additives
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 08:02
in Health & Medicine
The anticaking agent E551 silicon dioxide, or silica, has been used widely in the food industry over the past 50 years, and was long thought to be quite safe. Now, however, researchers working on the National Research Programme "Opportunities and Risks of Nanomaterials" have discovered that these nanoparticles can affect the immune system of the digestive tract.