Everyday Toxicology

Understanding Risk Assessment Approaches

November 3, 2025 - Everyday Toxicology Risk Risk Perception

Ever wonder how regulators decide if an ingredient is safe enough to be in your food? Let's explore the science and philosophy behind these critical decisions. Top Takeaways: Risk assessments are comprehensive scientific evaluations that determine whether ingredients are safe to use, …

Everyday Toxicology – Metabolism

October 6, 2025 - Everyday Toxicology

In this post, we look at metabolism to better understand how it’s used to determine ingredient safety. Top Takeaways: Metabolism is not about fat-burning or supplements. Metabolism in toxicology is about how the body processes and eliminates compounds. Our bodies protect us…

Weight of Evidence

May 19, 2025 - Everyday Toxicology Ingredient Safety Risk Risk Perception Science Vs. Sensation Trending

If you’ve ever wondered how scientists decide whether an ingredient is safe to eat, use, or breathe in, especially when different studies say different things, you’re not alone. One term experts often use is “weight of evidence.” But what does that…

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure-based Risk Assessment

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski

June 17, 2024 - Everyday Toxicology

Regulators, researchers, and manufacturers use risk assessments to determine ingredient and product safety. In this post, we look at how exposure-based risk assessment works to ensure the safety of the ingredients in the products we're exposed to. What is Exposure-based Risk Assessment?? Exposure-based…

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski, Norbert Kaminski

June 10, 2024 - Everyday Toxicology

Scientists frequently talk about dose, dose rate, and exposure. But, what is exposure? How is our body exposed to ingredients? In this post, we look at exposure and routes of exposure. What is exposure? Exposure is the way we physically come in contact…

Everyday Toxicology – Reference Dose

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski, Norbert Kaminski

January 22, 2024 - Everyday Toxicology

In this post, we look at how researchers determine safe doses. How do regulators determine how much of an ingredient is safe in a product? Many factors determine an ingredient’s safety. We know regulators look at many endpoints to determine how much of…

Everyday Toxicology – Thresholds Overview

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski

March 13, 2023 - Everyday Toxicology

In this series, we look at a critical toxicological concept that underpins the regulations and safety standards that keep the products we use and consume safe: Thresholds. What is a toxicology threshold? A toxicology threshold refers to the amount of an ingredient or…

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure to Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

June 8, 2020 - Everyday Toxicology

In prior posts, we’ve discussed the many routes we’re exposed to ingredients. In this post, we take a deeper look at the ingredient titanium dioxide to explore how exposure routes impact research and health outcomes. What is titanium dioxide? Titanium is a common…

Everyday Toxicology - Supplement & Medicine Safety

Everyday Toxicology – Digging Deeper, Supplement & Medicine Safety

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

March 2, 2020 - Everyday Toxicology

In previous blog posts, we've discussed the importance of dose and dose-rate and how our bodies absorb, process, and eliminate ingredients. In this post, we'll discuss supplements and drug safety. What are supplements? anything from a simple vitamin or mineral taken in a pill…

Everyday Toxicology - Detoxing Your Body

Everyday Toxicology – Digging Deeper, Detoxing Your Body

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

February 24, 2020 - Everyday Toxicology

Previously we've discussed how our bodies absorb, process, and eliminate ingredients we consume. In this post, we'll take a look at detoxifying our body and explore if we need expensive detox teas or other remedies to help support our health. What are…

Everyday Toxicology

Understanding Risk Assessment Approaches

Everyday Toxicology – Metabolism

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure-based Risk Assessment

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure

Everyday Toxicology – Reference Dose

Everyday Toxicology – Thresholds Overview

Everyday Toxicology – Exposure to Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide

Everyday Toxicology – Digging Deeper, Supplement & Medicine Safety

Everyday Toxicology – Digging Deeper, Detoxing Your Body

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