FACTS strives to be the premier provider of consulting and testing services for the food industry, helping our clients make better, more informed decisions to drive their businesses forward.
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FOOD ALLERGEN MANAGEMENT
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| Public and in-house allergen training |
- Public practical allergen-management workshops, masterclasses and free webinars
- Different levels of customisable on-site allergen management training
- VITAL® training
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| Allergen management support |
- Develop, implement and improve allergen management plans
- Allergen cleaning validation and verification studies
- Allergen root cause analyses
- Allergen risk reviews
- Allergen management plan audits
- Quantitative Risk Assessment
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| Allergen risk review |
- Raw material and supplier risk reviews
- Manufacturing process and environment risk reviews
- Allergen management plan audits
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| Allergen quantitative risk assessment |
- Establish whether precautionary allergen labelling is required
- Establish whether additional allergen controls are necessary
- Formulate a crisis-response plan (e.g. in the case of a recall or withdrawal) by providing a science-based opinion on allergen risk
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| Allergen rapid kits and matrix checking |
- A wide range of rapid on-site testing kits
- Matrix check studies to confirm that a kit will provide reliable results for specific circumstances and samples
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| WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH: |
| Incident scanning solutions |
- Identify, collate, and interpret historic acts of food fraud in your supply chains, to support comprehensive vulnerability assessments
- Incident scanning reports can be targeted (specific to all raw materials) and/or non-targeted (general to categories of raw material)
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| Testing |
We take the guesswork out of food fraud and authenticity testing. Our expert team helps you to:
- Determine what types of fraud are relevant to a product, and how to test for them
- Prioritise VACCP testing resources by identifying which products to test
- Manage routine VACCP testing schedules
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| Support and consultation |
- Provide support with food fraud-related queries and challenges
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VEGAN PRODUCT INTEGRITY
| WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH: |
| Vegan product integrity and compliance consulting |
- Reviewing product labels for compliance with South African food regulations
- Helping you to manage the integrity of vegan and plant-based products
- Providing technical support on any vegan or plant-based product-related queries
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| Vegan product testing |
- Providing a valuable and effective solution for confirming vegan product integrity and claims
- Providing a first-to-market vegan screen for food products; simultaneous detection of common animal-derived ingredients
- Providing a first-to-market vegan screen for wine products; simultaneous detection of common animal-derived fining agents typically used in wine production
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| Public vegan product integrity training |
- Hosting annual vegan product-integrity masterclasses and free webinars on vegan/plant-based product-related topics
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| In-house vegan product integrity training |
- Facilitating in-house vegan product-integrity training; training material can be tailored to meet your specific requirements
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FOOD LABELLING
| WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH: |
| Public and in-house training |
- Public practical food labelling workshops, masterclasses and free webinars
- Customisable on-site food labelling training
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| Food label assessment |
- Ensure that your food label complies with all the applicable labelling regulations in South Africa
- Checking compliance with DoH, DALRRD and DTIC regulations
- Engagement with regulators on your behalf
- Advice on food label claims
- Vegan product labelling / vegan food labelling
- Nutrition input such as calculation of nutritional information and consultation on appropriate serving sizes
- Interpretation of laboratory results as per the regulatory requirements
- International labelling compliance (facilitate with appropriate partners)
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| Food regulatory subscription plan |
- Prioritised food label reviews
- Prioritised feedback on any queries
- Regulatory updates: monthly update on new South African food regulations published which pertain to labelling and advertising of foodstuffs and/or composition of foodstuffs (under DoH, DALRRD or DTIC)
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FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
| WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH: |
| South African food regulations |
- Assist with compositional requirements
- Identifying testing requirements
- Interpretation of laboratory/testing results
- Check whether your additives and ingredients are allowed
- Evaluation of proposed claims
- Allergens
- Food fraud/vulnerabilities
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| Nutrition |
- Calculation of nutritional information
- Protein complementation calculations (for protein claims)
- Interpretation of analysis results
- Consultation on appropriate serving sizes
- Advice on food label claims
- Consultation on nutritional needs of an identified target audience
- Nutrient profiling for front of pack labelling (SA and UK)
- Vegan and plant-based food product assistance
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CUSTOM ANALYSIS
| WE CAN ASSIST YOU WITH: |
| Custom services |
- Formulating clear objective/s for queries received
- Advising what information must be gathered or provided to meet the objective/s
- Brainstorming solutions, considerations and pitfalls regarding the query among our multidisciplinary team
- Reviewing available scientific tools and literature to determine what test/s are appropriate to meet the objective/s. Based on this review, assist with a custom test, develop a new test or source an analyst who can assist with the test required to meet the objective/s
- Reviewing available and appropriate legislation and/or scientific information to establish how best to meet the objective/s, and then conduct an assessment of this information
- Interpreting results/findings, using specialised skill sets and considering all of the available information mentioned above
- Providing an easy-to-understand report with the outcome
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Please note: Consulting prices are based on hourly rates, and quoted values are specific to the scope of a project.
If you are interested in our services, please contact us.
