Preservative tBHQ
New research in part funded by CRIS, now live in Frontiers Immunology, discusses the preservative ingredient tBHQ. In this post, we look at tBHQ and its impact on immune systems.
Risk
Risk In the news – Artificial Sweetener A Cancer Risk?
Last week we looked at risk and how risk impacts our lives and our decisions. This week, we’re going to look at risk, and data to understand how risk plays a role in our lives.
While it's easy to get caught up…
Risk – Zero Risk?
One of the main concerns we see folks express around ingredient safety is a desire to ensure an ingredient is completely safe with no risk for harm. Is that possible?
One of the main concerns we see folks express around ingredient safety…
Risk – Exploring the Risk Assessment Process
When looking at ingredients, contaminants, residues, & more that we're exposed to regularly, researchers use a risk assessment to derive permissible exposure levels. In this post, we look at the risk assessment process & how it can inform product safety.
What is…
Using risk to make informed decisions
In this post, we'll explore the role risk assessments, the precautionary principle, and how these concepts influence ingredient safety rules and regulations
In our last post, we explored risk, hazard, and exposure, but there is much more to decision making than simply knowing…
What is risk?
In this post, we'll explore the differences between hazard, exposure, and risk so you can make better, informed decisions around ingredient safety.
What is a hazard?
Hazards, in terms of ingredient safety, are any ingredient or process that we know can cause harm.
For…