chemicalfreelife: FOOD CHEMICALS:  *NANO-PARTICLE FOOD ADDITIVES and DRUG ADDITIVES* MAY BE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH… and HAVE BEEN LINKED with CROHN’S DISEASE . Tiny food additives possibly dangerousA new study of engineered nanoparticles, the ultrafine grains commonly used in drugs and processed foods, suggests they could be harming human health, scientists said Sunday. “The polystyrene particles used in these experiments are generally considered non-toxic, but their interaction with a normal physiological process suggests a potential mechanism for a chronic, harmful, but subtle response.” Engineered nano-particles are used increasingly in the form of titanium oxide or as aluminum silicates in pills to help deliver pills and in food, where they are used as stabilizers or anticaking agents in fluids and creams. In developed countries, individuals may be consuming each day a thousand billion engineered particles ranging from fine to ultrafine in scale, according to figures from 2002 research quoted in the study. Previous research has suggested micron-and nano-sized particles could play a role in the painful inflammatory gut disorder called Crohn’s disease, says the paper. Most of these particles have a negatively charged surface, which means they adhere to biomolecules in the gut, accumulating at lymphoid nodules called Peyer’s patches, according to the earlier research. .

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FOOD CHEMICALS:  *NANO-PARTICLE FOOD ADDITIVES and DRUG ADDITIVES* MAY BE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH… and HAVE BEEN LINKED with CROHN’S DISEASE

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Tiny food additives possibly dangerous

A new study of engineered nanoparticles, the ultrafine grains commonly used in drugs and processed foods, suggests they could be harming human health, scientists said Sunday.

“The polystyrene particles used in these experiments are generally considered non-toxic, but their interaction with a normal physiological process suggests a potential mechanism for a chronic, harmful, but subtle response.”

Engineered nano-particles are used increasingly in the form of titanium oxide or as aluminum silicates in pills to help deliver pills and in food, where they are used as stabilizers or anticaking agents in fluids and creams.

In developed countries, individuals may be consuming each day a thousand billion engineered particles ranging from fine to ultrafine in scale, according to figures from 2002 research quoted in the study.

Previous research has suggested micron-and nano-sized particles could play a role in the painful inflammatory gut disorder called Crohn’s disease, says the paper. Most of these particles have a negatively charged surface, which means they adhere to biomolecules in the gut, accumulating at lymphoid nodules called Peyer’s patches, according to the earlier research.

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