Cobalt chromium aluminate blue-green

Regulated Colorants That Are FDA Approved. It often seems a contradiction that many of the colorants that are suitable for use in food contact applications must also appear on an MSDS as a reportable or hazardous material. Examples include zinc oxide and zinc sulfide, both zinc compounds chromium oxide green (pigment green 17), a chromium compound carbon black and cobalt aluminate blue (pigment blue 28), which is not only reportable because of its cobalt content but is also a suspected carcinogen. 

Also included here are the secondary oxides (aluminates) calcium aluminate (CaAl204), cobalt aluminate (C0AI2O4), lead aluminate (PbAl204) and hercynite (iron aluminate, Fe Al204). Calcium aluminate (calciiun aluminium oxide) may be a component of the pigment known as Satin white. Cobalt aluminate (cobalt aluminium oxide) is the pigment Cobalt blue. Lead alu-minate is listed by the Colour Index (1971) under Cl 77585. Hercynite has been identified on Minoan painted pottery by Stos-Fertner et al. (1979). Chromium aluminium cobalt oxide is Turkish Green. 

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