Some folks overdo it, though.
Will Titanium dioxide make me bullet proof?
So, FDA is worried about a nano particle yet is fine with GMO. ok.
There’s a big difference between oxides and ores, and metal salts, and the pure metal. And different metals cause problems in different forms. Titanium dioxide is *widely* used as a food coloring, and in plenty of other human-interactive applications like sunscreen and makeup. On the other hand, sodium is fairly dangerous in metallic form, but is biologically useful in its salt form when combined with chlorine (another chemical that is horrifically dangerous to life on its own).
As an example in the other direction, pure metallic (elemental) mercury is only modestly harmful by itself, mostly because it emits mercury vapor, but its ethyl and methyl forms are highly bioavailable and permanently damage critical cellular functions.
As long as there isn’t any Kryptonite dioxide in it, then I’m safe.
About 3 out of every 4 dairy cows slaughtered for ground beef has some degree of hardware disease. In most cases it isn’t serious enough to puncture an organ and cause peritonitis, but it is certainly present in trace amounts to beef consumers. I imagine the problem is equally widespread in beef steers as well. You find roofing nails, bailing wire, food packaging ... all kinds of things; you put it in front of them and they will eat it.
If it induced spontaneous healing, obamacare would ban it.
What you do find, and often mentioned on the label, is silicon dioxide. Sometimes that occurs also as sodium aluminosilicate. since I have a B. S. in Ceramic Engineering, I am aware of the significance of these materials.
I just swallowed a big bunch of magnesium.
[now I gotta be careful not to scrape along the pavement at high speed]
If you dont know that someone is there because it has no discernible effect, then it is probably not worth worrying about. It is not until someone TELLS you its there that people start worrying about things. For example, if someone placed a cookie on a toilet seat and then put it into a cookie jar, no one would ever be able to tell. If you tell them a cookie in that jar was on a toilet seat they would throw all the cookies away.
Some folks overdo it, though.
Well now milk drinkers will be able to honestly say that they have the metal to be marines.
In the olden days they used to add powdered chalk to milk and flour.
Titanium Dioxide? That’s mighty white of them! (subtle artist joke)