CONSUMER INTELLIGENCE
The diagnostic engine of the platform.
What Europe’s New Right to Repair Covers
The law opens repair routes for listed products, but parts, prices and safe access still decide what happens
Where Compostable Plastic Can Break Down
Industrial facilities, home compost heaps and ordinary recycling are different routes
What ‘Recyclable’ Means Where You Live
Why design, local collection and recycling at scale are three different promises
Low-Oil Cooking Is Not the Same as a Non-Stick Pan
Why softening, browning and delicate release need different combinations of moisture, oil, heat and surface
Mineral Oil: What Changes the Risk
From cereal packaging and laxatives to factory mist and waterways, refining, formulation and exposure route determine where harm can follow.
What do we know about the ‘food-grade’ seal?
A silicone gasket starts as sand — yet the residues it can shed, D4, D5 and D6, are already listed by EU chemicals law as substances of very high concern.
Plastic-Free Wipes Still Block the Drain
Do you know why a wet wipe can lose its plastic and still refuse to break up in the sewer, and why the UK water sector withdrew the one drain-test label it ever built?
The Battery You Can't Take Out
Do you know how a battery ends up sealed inside a cheap gadget — and why "you can't open it" almost always means cheaper for the maker, not better built for you?
The "May Contain" Warning
Do you know who the "may contain" warning on a food packet is actually written for — and why the pack with no warning is not the safe choice?
The Sand Nobody Tested
Do you know what the coloured play sand in a child's craft toy is actually made of — and how a banned mineral can end up inside it without anyone adding it, or being required to look?
The Green Claim No One Could Report
Do you know how the word "Recycled" ends up alone in a Google search ad — and why the number that would tell you how much of it is recycled is the one thing the ad leaves out?
The Chemicals a Shop Has to Tell You About
Do you know you can make the shop that sold you a product name any hazardous chemical on an official list that the product contains — free, within forty-five days — and how to ask so an answer comes back?
The Colour on Your Mug
Do you know how the colours on your mug get made and why metals like lead can appear in them?
The Line Nobody Checks
Twelve grades of wool traded in a single week at four times the spread. The label has one word for all twelve.
The Government's Reply on Forever Chemicals in Food Left Out the Pesticides Sprayed on Fruit
MPs asked the government in April to set limits on forever chemicals entering food through farming. The reply covered fish, eggs, milk and vegetables, and never used the word pesticide.
The Film You Leave Behind
The disinfectant ingredient that keeps working on a worktop can also stay there. New biomonitoring says one benzalkonium route is the surface film itself.
The Ingredients List
The label tells you what was meant to be added. It is weaker at telling you what is still in the bottle.
The SPF Number
The number on a sunscreen bottle is useful. It is also a paid human-panel estimate with a confidence interval the shelf does not print.