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While the FDA does not individually approve food products, they do approve or refuse certain ingredients. Color additives used in the US must be certified, by batch, before being approved for use. Each of the ingredients in Poppy Paint are approved for use as food additives, and the colorants used in our paints are all batch certified by the FDA. For more information, please see the links below.

References: “Although FDA does not have premarket approval of food products, it has the authority to approve certain ingredients before they are used in foods. Those include food additives, such as substances added intentionally to food, and color additives.” https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm047470.htm“Color Certification is a Congressionally mandated program for FDA enforcement of specifications by batch certification of the certifiable color additives that are added to foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices in the United States.”https://www.fda.gov/forindustry/coloradditives/colorcertification/colorcertificationreports/default.htm

Before using Poppy Paint, you will need to ensure it’s well-mixed. You’ll be able to see how the paint has settled on most colors, but a few (especially white and black) may appear to be well mixed even when not. For the colors in which the separation is clearly visible, shake vigorously until the color appears uniform from top to bottom. For colors like black and white where you cannot see the separation, shake even longer than the others just to be sure.

(TIP: If your paint has set for a very long time, there may be some sediment that doesn’t want to come loose from the bottom of the bottle. If this happens, gently squeezing the bottom of the bottle can help to loosen the sediment before shaking.)

Squeeze a small amount of paint into one of the reservoirs in your palette. If using a new bottle of Poppy Paint, dispose of the tamper-evident ring before pouring your paint so that it doesn’t fall in and make a mess.

Wipe the paint off your bottle tip before replacing the lid so that the lid doesn’t stick when the paint dries.