Food labelling

Getting your label right is important for your brand image. Our team of labelling experts is standing by to assess your products and provide suggestions for correcting or adapting your label, to make sure that it complies with the relevant South African food regulations and standards.

Food labelling services

• Ensure that your food label complies with all the applicable labelling regulations in South Africa.
• Check compliance with DoH, DALRRD and DTIC regulations.
Engage with the regulators on your behalf.
Advise on food label claims.
• Make sure an appropriate serving size is used.
• Check whether the product ingredients are permitted within the food category.
• Vegan food and product labelling.
• Give nutritional input, such as calculation of nutritional information when appropriate and consultation on appropriate serving sizes.
• Interpret laboratory results as per the regulatory requirements.

Thankfully, our team will always consider the relavant aspects to your product range; and in those cases where the regulations do not provide clarity for your product label, we can lean on our longstanding relationship with the food labelling regulators to guide us

Food regulatory subscription plan

Sign up for our food regulatory subscription plan, and access remote consultation and expert advice on all the food labelling and nutrition services we offer, along with receiving monthly updates on new regulations about the labelling of foodstuffs and/or their composition.

Our food regulatory subscription plan is a win-win option!

• Prioritised food label reviews.
• Prioritised feedback on any queries.
• Regulatory updates: a monthly round-up of newly-published South African food regulations from the DoH, DALRRD and DTIC that pertain to the labelling, advertising and/or composition of
  foodstuffs

Public and In-house training

We offer a range of general and customised regulatory and nutrition training courses. Please visit our training calendar and in-house training pages for more information, and to see which of our popular general workshops, masterclasses and webinars are coming up next. For our customised in-house training, a programme will be designed for your organisation’s specific requirements, and the training can be done virtually or on site. FACTS will include practical examples directly related to your facility’s product labels, enabling your team to workshop solutions to your particular challenges.  We are standing by – please contact us to discuss your training requirements and queries, or request an in-house training quote by completing our easy-to-use online form.

If you would like to know more about our food product development services, please contact us.

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