Our unique approach
As with all our work, we pursue a holistic approach to all regulatory audits, striking a balance that is compliant with the pertinent legislation while supporting the desired marketplace position of the product.
Our skill set
1. Regulator pre-market submissions and notifications:
Novel food, novel dietary fibre, health claims on food, food additives, food ingredients, food colours, GRAS notifications, novel packaging, market authorization permits, infant formula, animal feed supplements
2. Label creation, audit & remedial services:
Food Labels, Websites, Advertising
- Creation or audit of food labels, sell sheets, advertising and websites
- Compliance of proposed claims and statements (wording of claim and substantiation)
- Identification of overlooked claims
- Nutrition Facts Table (Cda), Nutrition Facts Label (USA), Supplement Facts Label (USA) and Nutrition Labelling (EU) creation and review
- Accurate provision of mandatory and voluntary information
3. Participation in Government-agency led consultations in Canada and the USA:
Since the inception of our company 32 years ago, we have participated in several Government-agency consultations, the more recent of which are highlighted below.
Canada:
- Regulatory modernization of foods for special dietary use and infant foods: Divisions 24 and 25 of the Food and Drug Regulations – November 2023 to February 2024
- Consultation on the proposed Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Food Additives and Compositional Standards, Microbiological Criteria and Methods of Analysis for Food – November 2023 to February 2024
- Consultation on front-of-package nutrition labelling – August 2023
- Consultation: Proposed regulations for supplemented foods – June-September 2021
- Sodium Intake of Canadians in 2017 – published 2021
- Consultation on the revision of Canada’s Food Guide – March 2018
- Nutrition labelling consultations held Summer 2015 and Summer 2016
- Proposed Policy: Definition and Energy Value for Dietary Fibre – December 2010
USA:
- Labelling of gluten-free foods
Beyond food labels
Our 32 years experience has lead us to create labels for products outside the packaged food sector, such as:
Paper products, residential and industrial cleaning products, consumer home appliances, dietary supplements (USA) , NHPs (Canada), animal feed supplements, and more recently, toys