Blog — how to protect your family's health

Hi, my name is Benjamin Anderson, I’m a working professional artist of 20 years (www.benjaminanderson.com) with an innate creative spirit, living in Santa Barbara, California with my wife and two children. Born out of need and tired of carrying around bottles of gels I needed during excursions, I felt the drive to keep my family safe by developing a new way to carry essential liquids like hand sanitizer, sunscreen and bug repellent in an easy to use, accessible product. After hundreds of different concepts floating around in my head for months, I narrowed it down to a wristband kit that...

An outbreak has struck again…this time, cucumbers. As of today, September 10th, 2015, over 340 reported illness (70% hospitalized) and two deaths across 30 states have been connected with a Salmonella outbreak from cucumbers imported from Mexico. Articles covering the story recall ‘another outbreak,’ but whenever I see these hit the news, my heart hurts…for the families, the afflicted and for everyone who will be affected in their lives by something that is so largely controllable. The fact is, the FDA, CDC and USDA will continue to tell us that cleaning produce with water is enough. Just like smoking was...

We all gotta’ eat. But how we eat can take a huge toll on our health. Did you know that there are over 48 million cases of food borne illness in the United States every year? Of that, 125,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths?! These numbers are insane and all contributed to the lack of food safety in and outside of the home. Everyone wants to have fun eating out, cooking amazing meals or dreaming of becoming the next Food Network Star but if you don’t know how to protect yourself and your family from food borne illness, it can be...