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{
"text": "Don’t see plastic in the ingredients. Are you sure?",
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"text": "This is pure scaremongering:",
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"text": "Common ingredients in edible glitter or dust include sugar, acacia (gum arabic), maltodextrin, cornstarch, and color additives specifically approved for food use, including mica-based pearlescent pigments and FD&C colors such as FD&C Blue No. 1. Most edible glitters and dusts also state “edible” on the label. If the label simply says “non-toxic” or “for decorative purposes only” and does not include an ingredients list, the product should not be used directly on foods.",
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"text": "Source: [FDA.gov](http://FDA.gov)",
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"text": "Ingredients are sugar and corn starch. Where do you get idea that it’s plastic?",
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{
"text": "Edible glitter is a thing.",
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{
"text": "I have used this in plenty of drinks for a sparkle and it is fine!",
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"text": "Where does it suggest it has plastic in it? Ok so I looked at the colours. France has banned 171 - titanium oxide. But its been approved in loads of other countries and loads of other foods for decades.",
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"text": "Its good to keep an eye out if you want to limit nanoparticles I suppose in other foods. A sprinkle of gold dust is probably not much and it has not been banned in this country",
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{
"text": "putting it in boiling water, theres shiny glitter floating in it.",
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"text": "when I put it in boiling water, theres plastic glitter floating in it.",
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{
"text": "Yeah that doesn’t sound right. It’s made in China I see so it may well be plastic",
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}
]