The Chemical Maze

Product Description

THE CHEMICAL MAZE SHOPPING COMPANION 4th edition (Your Guide to Food Additives and Cosmetic Ingredients) continues to be the book of choice when it comes to providing consumers with easily understood information on the potential health effects of food additives and ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. This latest edition is fully revised and updated with over 400 new entries. (See our sample pages.)

    * Helps you to choose safer products
    * Fits conveniently into your pocket or purse
    * Simple layout makes it quick and easy to use
    * Gives useful information on hundreds of substances
    * Origins of additives/ingredients: petroleum, animal and GM
    * Environmental effects of chemicals that are to be found in consumer products
    * The Chemical Maze reached the Angus and Robertson Health & Fitness Top Ten

Here is an invaluable companion on your shopping trips to the supermarket. Learn to recognise consumer friendly foods and personal care products so you can protect your health and the health of your family.

Over eight years of research

Since the publication of the 4th book edition of The Chemical Maze Shopping Companion there has been a growing awareness of what we are putting in our mouths and on our skin. This is no easy task, but many hundreds of hours of research have been rewarded with feedback from consumers showing that The Chemical Maze's time has well and truly come.

The Chem­i­cal Maze was writ­ten to make it sim­pler and eas­ier to recog­nise addi­tives and ingre­di­ents in foods and cos­met­ics hav­ing the poten­tial to cause dis­com­fort and ill-health. With this recog­ni­tion comes free­dom of choice and for many a new lease on life. Find information on: 

Food additives

Food Addi­tives pro­vides a numer­i­cal list of food addi­tives approved for use in Aus­tralia and New Zealand. If you know the name of a food addi­tive you can find its code num­ber in Food Addi­tives with INS Num­bers. Code num­bers pre­fixed by the let­ter E anno­tate addi­tives used in the Euro­pean Union and approved for use in Aus­tralia and New Zealand.

Cos­metic ingredients

Cos­metic Ingredients lists in alpha­bet­i­cal order com­mon ingre­di­ents that may be found in cos­metic and per­sonal care products.

Exten­sive Content

Com­plete and exten­sive con­tent cov­er­age. Detailed INS and E num­bers, addi­tive infor­ma­tion cov­er­ing, func­tions (for exam­ple thick­en­ers, sta­b­lis­ers etc), poten­tial effects (aller­gic etc) and pos­si­ble uses (used in food for jelly, infant foods etc).

More than 150,000 sold

Over the last eight years over 150,000 copies of 'The Chemical Maze' have been sold around the globe translated into eight languages. After a highly successful initial launch in Australia in April 2001, The Chemical Maze has become a bestseller in its genre.

• Eight years of extensive international research.
• Over 100,000 copies sold in Australia and New Zealand alone.
• Based on the bestselling and most well known book on the subject.
• International following and recognition, the only trusted source of additives around the world.
• Thousands of researched, documented and noted additives

Author, Bill Statham, says "The Chemical Maze has been produced for those people committed to living a healthy life".