Sensient’s adulteration screening process ensures all of our incoming natural raw materials are free-from contaminates like synthetic dyes or other additives that adulterate the product.
Our oversight on adulteration of natural materials is extremely vigilant, as Sensient is on the FDA’s notification list to be amongst the first to hear if an adulterant is flagged by a raw material vendor globally.
Intentionally: Adulteration may occur maliciously or for economic gain, whether to dilute a raw material so it can be “stretched” further or to increase its weight or volume to inflate pricing.
Unintentionally: It would be much more likely for adulteration to occur by accident. Natural raw materials absorb things indiscriminately from the air, water, and soil around them. If the groundwater or soil in a field has been contaminated, that will get into the crop. This issue can be further exacerbated by the concentration process that many crops go through in order to extract the natural color.
Sensient’s global agronomy program helps to ensure our partner farmers remain very attentive to potential safety risks, and the seed to shelf strategy enables us to have full traceability on our vertically integrated botanicals crops for color.
In teaching farmers about potential situations resulting in accidental adulteration, we highlight the three scenarios:
As with all failures of any stage of the Certasure™ screening process, Sensient rejects and returns the raw material to its respective vendor. In the last five years, we have never failed a raw material due to adulteration, and we have never seen a vendor knowingly adulterate one of our incoming raw materials.
However, we remain alert and cautious. Even vendors with a spotless record are screened with rigor to ensure that we never miss an instance of adulteration or contamination.
Our Certasure™ Promise to You when you receive a natural color shipment from Sensient, you’ll see the Certasure™ shield on each product container--this is representative of our promise and guarantee of purity.
Our vision for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry is that all ingredient suppliers like natural color providers will test all botanical raw materials as rigorously as we do, for not only the protection of your brand but also for the safety of your consumers’ health. Sensient encourages our customers to always inquire about the implemented safety protocols of all of their suppliers.
This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing details about each of our robust screening processes.
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