Dandruff, a clinical condition caused by Malassezia (Pityrosporum) species is of great cosmetic concern all over the world. Dandruff is known to be controlled by fungistatic ingredients in Anti-dandruff shampoos. A comparative study on the efficacy of chemical and herbal anti-dandruff ingredients on ’as is’ basis and their performance in market shampoos was done in vitro against Pityrosporum ov...

Automatically constructing a food diary that tracks the ingredients consumed can help people follow a healthy diet.We tackle the problem of food ingredients recognition as a multi-label learning problem. We propose a method for adapting a highly performing state of the art CNN in order to act as a multi-label predictor for learning recipes in terms of their list of ingredients. We prove that ou...

Components must be trustworthy if they are worth deploying at all. In this position paper, we identify some ingredients that we think are essential for enabling components to be trustworthy.

Natural substances are generally preferred over chemical ones and are generally seen as healthy. The increasing demand for natural ingredients, improving health and appearance, is also attracting beverages as the fastest growing segment on the functional food market. Functional beverages are launched as fortified water, tea, diary or juices claiming overall nutrition, energy, anti-aging or rela...

dministration of pharmaceutical agents to pregnant women is a concern, because of safety issues to both mother and fetus. However, all medication formulations contain many other inactive ingredients in addition to the active drug. In contrast to the extensive research on the safety of active pharmaceutical ingredients in pregnant patients, the fetal safety of the inactive ingredients has been l...

Hair dyes and their ingredients have moderate to low acute toxicity. Human poisoning accidents are rare and have only been reported following oral ingestion. Contact sensitisation to hair dyes has been a safety issue, mainly as a consequence of unprotected professional exposure. Although the use of hair dyes has dramatically increased in industrialised countries during the last decades, the pre...