Tavor White holds a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering with a specialty in Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, as well as an MBA, all from Columbia University in NYC. He has over two decades of experience working in R&D and has conducted extensive research in materials science, surface chemistry, and in vitro canine digestive studies. Tavor started studying dog chew safety when his first dog experienced an almost fatal GI obstruction. For the past eight years, he has been researching dog chew safety and efficacy, and has conducted hundreds of tests on experimental and commercial dog chews.