Food & Ingredient Safety

Dryer Sheet Ingredient Safety

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski

April 11, 2022 - Food & Ingredient Safety

This community-requested blog looks at dryer sheets and explores the safety of ingredients that make up this common household product. What is a dryer sheet? A dryer sheet is a nonwoven polyester material that manufacturers coat with ingredients to improve laundry's softness, decrease…

Heavy Metals in Baby Foods

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

February 22, 2021 - Food & Ingredient Safety

We’ve seen the headlines; some baby foods contain heavy metals, but what does that mean? In this post, we break down the report to help keep you informed. What are they finding in baby food? A report presented to the U.S. House Oversight Committee states…

Food & Ingredient Safety – Food Additives: Delaney Clause

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

February 15, 2021 - Food & Ingredient Safety

In our last post, we took a high-level look at the Food Additives Amendment of 1958. In this post, we dive into one section of the amendment that's generated many conversations and much confusion: the Delaney Clause. What is the Food Additives…

Food & Ingredient Safety – Food Additives

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

February 8, 2021 - Food & Ingredient Safety

In this series, we take a look at the Food Additives Amendment of 1958. In prior posts, we’ve covered vital U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety topics, including Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) ingredients and Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations (CGMP).…

Food & Ingredient Safety – Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP)

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

May 18, 2020 - Food & Ingredient Safety

In several past posts we’ve mentioned Current Good Manufacturing Practices, but what are those practices and what do they mean for consumers? In this post, we explore Current Good Manufacturing Practices as it relates to food and ingredient safety. Updated from an…

Getting the Science Right - A Case Study

Getting the science right – hair dye & chemical straightening products as a case study

Norbert Kaminski, Jinpeng Li, Elisabeth Anderson

December 16, 2019 - Food & Ingredient Safety

In this post, we'll dig into the facts around hair dye and chemical hair straighteners. While it's easy to get caught up in clickbait headlines about the latest scientific breakthroughs that can fill us with fear and anxiety, it's essential to take…

Thanksgiving

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

November 25, 2019 - Food & Ingredient Safety

Stay safe this Thanksgiving with some food safety dos and don’ts. Updated: November 23, 2020 There's enough to worry about this Thanksgiving, food safety shouldn't be one of them. Check out these Thanksgiving food safety dos & don'ts. Don't forget to keep yourself safe…

Chemicals – The ingredients of life

Elisabeth Anderson

April 8, 2019 - Food & Ingredient Safety

hen it comes to chemicals, it can be hard to untangle the facts from the fear (some of it necessary fear). In this series, we’ll explore the chemicals that make up our lives and the products we use. What do you think…

Food & Ingredient Safety

Dryer Sheet Ingredient Safety

Heavy Metals in Baby Foods

Food & Ingredient Safety – Food Additives: Delaney Clause

Food & Ingredient Safety – Food Additives

Food & Ingredient Safety – Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP)

Getting the science right – hair dye & chemical straightening products as a case study

Thanksgiving

Chemicals – The ingredients of life

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