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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, …

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…

What’s the risk? Synthetic vs natural chemical ingredients

May 5, 2025 - Chemophobia Ingredient Safety Risk Risk Perception Trending What's The Risk?

We see continued conversations about synthetic food ingredients, but what are they, and how do they differ from natural ones? In this post, we look at synthetic vs natural ingredients. Top Takeaways: Every ingredient is a chemical, even natural ones like water…

Preservative tBHQ

March 10, 2025 - In The News Ingredient Safety News Preservatives Product Ingredients Risk Science Vs. Sensation Tert-butylhydroquinone (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 In the news – Artificial Sweetener A Cancer Risk?

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski

April 4, 2022 - In The News 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?

Elisabeth Anderson, Joe Zagorski

March 28, 2022 - 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

Elisabeth Anderson, Jinpeng Li

July 6, 2020 - Risk

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

Elisabeth Anderson

June 3, 2019 - News Risk

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?

Elisabeth Anderson

May 28, 2019 - Risk

Updated: October 27, 2025 When it comes to ingredient safety, understanding hazard, exposure, and risk helps us make informed, science-based decisions about what’s truly safe to eat, drink, or use. Let’s explore how these concepts work together. Top Takeaways: Hazard ≠ Harm: A…

Risk

Understanding Risk Assessment Approaches

Preservative tBHQ

Risk In the news – Artificial Sweetener A Cancer Risk?

Risk – Zero Risk?

Risk – Exploring the Risk Assessment Process

Using risk to make informed decisions

What is risk?

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