>>It became the most commonly used white pigment in paints and in foods, medications, toothpaste, cosmetics, plastics and paper. As a result, annual production of titanium dioxide has increased by 4 million tons since the 1960s.
Like most dishonest studies, the use of the and...and statement to bump up the numbers is misleading. Most of that titanium dioxide increase is in the ultra-white paper that we demand now. First we had the 92 Brightness, then the 94, then the 96. If you burn old paper, you get ash. If you burn a piece of high brightness paper, you get clay.
Did they put it in Wonder-Bread?
Oh for days when science was science and scientific papers sacrosanct.