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EFSA Panel Concludes That Titanium Dioxide Cannot Be Considered Safe as a Food Additive

Nanotech

According to EFSA, the Panel applied for the first time the 2018 EFSA Scientific Committee guidance on nanotechnology to the safety assessment of food additives. After oral ingestion, the absorption of titanium dioxide particles is low, however they can accumulate in the body.” less than 100 nanometres) to which consumers may be exposed.”

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Lichens Slow to Return After Wildfire

Science & Climate

To test how lichens recolonized in chaparral systems after fire, the scientists in 2018 sampled lichen communities at two UC Davis natural reserves — Quail Ridge and nearby Stebbins Cold Canyon in Napa and Solano counties. If we lose these lichens, we’re losing a lot of the actual biodiversity that’s there.”. Not lichen’ frequent fire.

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Guest commentary: A ground-breaking judgment in Germany

Law Columbia

The IPCC Special Report of 2018 is not saying that the 1.5C Assuming that this is more than lip-service paid to the Paris Agreement and the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report, Global Warming of 1.5 threshold must not be passed. Last but not least: the precautionary principle requires that potentially colossal damage be averted.

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