Food Label Requirements and Compliance

At NSF, we offer expert advice to ensure you comply with regulations relevant to your food and beverage products, enabling you to expand your reach and take full advantage of new market opportunities:

Raw material and/or ingredient check and formula compliance: 

We will check each food raw material for its components and treatments used before confirming whether or not it complies with relevant regulations and can be sold in its intended markets. We’ll also review the recipe breakdown of your product to confirm that its ingredients and percentages comply with its product category.

Claims risk assessment (innovation support): 

When innovating new products, our food regulatory experts will identify the risks and opportunities associated with specific food claims, regulated or otherwise. And we’ll interpret existing regulations and – even in the absence of regulations – advise you on how authorities will respond.

Nutritional labelling development and/or checks: 

Our experts in nutritional consulting will coordinate nutritional analysis testing or create calculated nutritional data based on your formula and raw materials. We can also review nutritional values and provide conversions for different countries, so you are sure to meet nutritional label requirements.

Pack copy development: 

Getting pack copy right is essential. We can help you understand and generate the mandatory information for your product label, helping to bridge the gap between specification information and the final label.

Regulatory translations: 

It’s important that meaning isn’t lost in translation. We offer food label translation services for export, using local expertise to advise you on legislative and linguistic corrections for both mandatory and voluntary text.

Artwork compliance review: 

Our artwork management services, which includes a full label artwork review, will ensure your products are represented correctly and the food label complies with regulations and guidelines in your chosen markets.

Packaging material regulations: 

We check your primary and secondary packaging against relevant food packaging regulations, including recyclability and waste disposal logo requirements.

Restaurant menu development: 

With allergen concerns growing worldwide, our experts will ensure your restaurant menu complies with regulations around allergens, additives and marketing text. We can also provide analysis to support nutritional information.

Specification management: 

For effective implementation and consistency, quality and traceability, our regulatory experts will support the creation and/or management of your products and/or raw material specifications. We can create technical specifications documents or build them within your software systems. Our team can also assist with regulatory approvals of your specifications as part of your document management system.

Horizon scanning: 

Should a regulation change, our regulatory alerts review highlights how the its changing. and what this means for your business and product compliance. Designed to meet your specific scenario, this can be based on specific countries and on timings as directed by you.

Specialist market insight: 

Our data-driven, market-intelligence solution, powered by an advanced digital tool, coupled with insight from our regulatory experts, will give you actionable information on how to expand successfully. You can also benefit from our regulatory horizon scanning. We’ll provide you with regulatory alerts that highlight how specific regulations are changing and what the change means for you.

We help you build robust and compliant product launches for long-term success.

Meet regulations worldwide and launch your products with confidence, using NSF’s seamlessly integrated approach.

A trusted and agile extension of your team, we work with you to ensure your product labels and claims are accurate, so consumers can make informed choices, and your products comply with specific regulations, geographies and languages.