New search engine offers comprehensive food & drinks ingredients database

Published: 27-May-2014

Web-based service ULprospector.com offers information on more than 40,000 ingredients

A new online database, devised by US-based product safety specialist Underwriters Laboratories (UL), called Prospector, www.ULprospector.com, enables manufacturers to access everything they need to know about food and drinks ingredients quickly and easily. Developed with ease and speed of use in mind, the website allows users to search by application or ingredient, so that raw materials can be found rapidly. A wide array of ingredient technical, safety, regulatory and certification information as well as starter formulations are available for download free of charge.

Links to relevant company contacts mean that further enquiries and sample requests can be made easily. Users are also able to request pricing information and additional supplier services.

Available in seven languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese), Prospector is constantly updated. To download information and formulations, users simply have to register.

Prospector bundles together the search engines formerly known as Innovadex and IDES. Innovadex has been a leading search engine for ingredients in the food, chemical and life science industries for many years, while the IDES database for resins, plastics additives and metals holds details of more than 80,000 products from hundreds of suppliers.

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