Food Regulatory Affairs
How can you navigate the food regulatory environment ensuring smooth market access?
Legislation has far-reaching implications for food products, and there are rules laid down affecting the manufacture, composition, labelling and claims for foods. For all foods, there is a wide range of consumer safety and information provisions in food legislation that cover aspects such, labelling, food additives, contaminants, and nutrition and health claims. The regulatory framework for foods continues to evolve and develop with seemingly small changes to legislation having a significant impact on your business. Our regulatory affairs expertise can support you with keeping up to date with developments affecting your business so that you maintain compliance and implement changes efficiently.
Food regulatory framework
- Current compositional and legislative provisions should be incorporated into product design. Our wealth of experience in international regulatory requirements in product composition, permitted additives and ingredients can help you ensure a compliant product for market.
- In the food industry, changes triggered by the evolving regulatory framework means that the composition, labelling and marketing of food products is under on-going review. We can advise on ongoing compliance and work with you to resolve any non-compliance issues to labelling and product composition. For example, legislative developments in the UK brought about since leaving the EU may require changes to product composition or marketing content.
- Our particular expertise in the specialist nutrition sectors means that we can be relied upon to provide comprehensive advice on regulatory affairs issues in this sector. We have an up-to-date understanding of the regulatory framework for foods and formulas for infants/children and specialised nutrition products, such as FSMP/medical foods.
Regulatory authority submissions and challenges
- Regulatory authority submissions for ingredients or products may be required before market access. We have successfully worked with several companies to produce submissions for review by regulatory authorities internationally.
- Having represented the views of the specialist nutrition industry in discussions with the EU Commission and UK Government bodies, we can advise on effective strategies for voicing support or objections to legislative changes that affect your business.