How does Exponent help clients navigate sensory-based claim substantiation?
Smell and taste play vital roles for consumers, influencing preferences and buying decisions for products ranging from food and beverages to cosmetics, cars, clothing and personal goods, household and cleaning products, and more. Exponent offers innovative scientific solutions for product manufacturers, distributors, and sellers, helping them understand certain attributes that may influence human perception and supporting the design of rigorous studies to address possible product liability or claim substantiation concerns.
Our multidisciplinary regulatory, sensory science, and flavor chemistry experts have years of experience evaluating products and validating science-based marketing claims to industry standards and regulatory specifications to help clients make data-based decisions that impact consumer appeal, market differentiation, and product effectiveness.
Capabilities
Our multidisciplinary teams are ready to provide chemosensory testing and analysis, claim substantiation and validation, and regulatory support to consumer product companies across industries, including food and beverage, personal and home fragrance, automotive, textile, fitness accessories, electronics, personal care products, cosmetics, and more.
What Can We Help You Solve?
With years of experience and unmatched expertise, our chemical regulation and sensory perception consultants help clients analyze the sensory interactions between users and products. Exponent's chemosensory scientists design rigorous tests with human subjects to support manufacturers in making evidence-based decisions about aroma and taste in products across industries.
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Food
Food safety, nutrition, and dietary exposure assessments, and technical and regulatory support.

Biocides & Antimicrobials
Expertise in multifaceted regulatory requirements in biocide and antimicrobial product approval processes.

Consumer Products: Cosmetics & Personal Care
Personal care products consulting for registration, notification targets, and product development.

Claims on Foods and Dietary Supplements
Regulatory strategy development, evidence review, documentation and petition preparation, and regulatory submission monitoring.

Product Qualification & Recall Consulting
Product qualification tests, statistical analysis, and strategic guidance for product recall and remediation decisions.

Regulation & Safety of Personal Care Products
Ensure safe, high-quality personal care products with experienced consulting expertise.
Experts
Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.


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