[DeanC]

H Perry,

Thanks very much for the reply. I was thinking a spectrometer test and chromatography test might give a fairly accurate representation or could go the ‘reverse formulation/de-formulation route with that said, I am not sure how accurate that would be. I do have the ingredients list however am fairly certain what is listed is not all that is in the products.

[DeanC]

Thanks for this. Will look into them.

[DeanC]

Hi @Cafe33 , the reasoning would be legal proceedings due to falsifying ingredients and misleading customers. Hope that helps.

[DeanC]

Hi @Juggsy Thank you for the suggestion, I did reach out and evidently they are more focussed on production rather than testing. For reference, we will not be moving these tested formulations into production but rather are testing for accuracy of claims and cost.

[DeanC]

Hi @Perry44 The purpose of the deformulation would be to confirm a company is being accurate with their ingredients claims as well as determining the cost to produce the product as opposed to trying to emulate something for consumer resale. Hope that helps clarify and again, appreciate you opinion and suggestions.

[DeanC]

Hi @cafe33,

Thank you for your response. In your experience, how much more complicated would it be if there are ingredients that are not listed in the product (which seems to be a trend among the smaller ‘natural’ companies)?

[DeanC]

Thank you very much for the response. Re:

‘When it comes to reformulating a product, chemists typically initiate the process by obtaining an ingredient list from a benchmark sample. Subsequently, they conduct bench testing on the benchmark, utilizing this information to craft a new formulation.’

What if the scenario involved ingredients that were being hidden and or not disclosed on the packaging. How would one account for this in the scenario?