Overview
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene across the UK. However, the food products in UK are following with European Food Information to Consumers Regulation No 1169/2011 (FIC) and the Food Information Regulations 2014 (FIR).
The European regulations specify compositional and labelling requirements of food supplements, including the vitamin and mineral substances permitted the use in food supplements, specific legislative rules for food supplements, fortified foods, food for particular nutritional uses “parnuts” foods (i.e. infant formula, follow-on formula, medical foods, baby foods, slimming foods and gluten-free foods), and foods making health claims or nutrition claims. For Novel food authorization, it is required to have a pre-market safety assessment and authorisation. As of now, in UK, there is now a transition period while the UK and EU negotiate additional arrangements. However, new rules will take effect on 1 January 2021 and that food products must have prepare to comply with new regulations.
Freyr assists manufacturers to streamline their market-entry activities with an end-to-end Regulatory support.
Freyr Expertise
- Food Product Classification
- Formula Review/Ingredients Assessment
- Label and Claims Review
- Regulatory Intelligence Report
- Product-specific Regulatory guidelines/standards
- Novel food enquiry submission
- Novel food registration
- Import guidance
- Claims Consultation and Substantiation
ADVANTAGES
Freyr Advantages
End-to-end Regulatory consultation
Qualified team of experts with hands-on experience across all categories of foods like health supplements, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, health functional foods, health functional beverages, foods for special dietary use, etc.
Support for region-specific Regulatory activities
Extensive partner network across the globe
Strong relationship with different Health Authorities