Including correspondences

Whenever an ingredient is ambiguous enough for you to contact the company, it's worth recording the results of your correspondence here. Some form of written communication (like e-mail, fax or postal mail) is preferred, but you can also summarize the results of verbal conversations.

Be sure to include

• The name and contact information of the person you spoke to.
• The date and time of the communication.
• The exact wording of both sides of the exchange wherever possible.

You may exclude

• Pleasantries exchanged including how much you like their product, how happy they may be to answer your questions, e-mail signature.
• Personally identifying information can be replaced with a description of the information in brackets, like [my name] or [city]

Formatting suggestions

Be sure to indicate clearly where each quoted correspondence begins and ends. For example:

 
I asked the company: 
    Blah blah blah
They replied:
    Whoever,
    Blah blah

The above is formatted as follows:

I asked the company: 
<blockquote>Blah blah blah</blockquote>
They replied:
<blockquote>Whoever, <br />
Blah blah</blockquote>

<blockquote> indents a block of text, but also removes line breaks. For line breaks it won't remove, add <br /> wherever you'd like a line broken. To simulate a paragraph break, repeat the tag twice: <br /><br />