Regulation
Ensuring that when food & beverage products come to market, they meet with all necessary local and international regulation and that they have been properly authenticated and tested to the highest standards is critical. Leatherhead’s global regulatory team can help you with all aspects of food & beverage regulation, whether that’s from routine testing, a regulatory question or contributing to an internationalisation strategy.
Global regulatory advice
Our global regulatory teams provide you a with an unparalleled global food regulatory advisory service covering more than 100 countries.
Product compliance
Our multilingual team of regulatory advisers helps assess the legal compliance of all aspects of your food or beverage product globally.
Incident support
Incidents in the food and beverage industry can be emotive and can quickly gain momentum, we can support you through the process.
Expert witness
When commercial or legal disputes occur in the food & beverage industry, we have specialist staff who can be called upon to give expert witness.
Label assessment
Ensuring that the labelling on a product is compliant with its chosen market is critical and we can advise you quickly on whether your labelling conforms.
Food safety
Leatherhead provides key services for those involved in creating, managing and improving the food safety processes and procedures in operation in their organisations. This includes assessing existing processes and products through challenge testing and advising on safety for new products with services such as shelf-life establishment.
Process safety – HACCP, BRC
Compliance to BRC and HACCP practice is a requirement of many major retailers and manufacturers and we can help you achieve this.
Challenge testing
Challenge testing is a key way of determining if products and processes are truly safe – we can carry out challenge testing for you.
Shelf life assessments
We specialise in designing and tailoring shelf life trials to maximise the quality and life of your products.
Troubleshooting
Issues can arise in food & beverage production and being able to quickly identify what is causing the problem is key to being able to resolve it quickly.
Consumer insight & sensory testing
Understanding the likes and dislikes of the consumer is key to developing successful food & beverage products. Similarly, being able to understand the sensory profile of your products is key to benchmarking and reformulating them. Leatherhead’s impressive range of sensory and consumer testing can assist you in placing the consumer at the heart of product development.
Concept validation
We help you take your concept to a representative group of consumers and get you actionable feedback for developing the concept.
Claims substantiation
If you wish to make a marketing claim about your product, then we can help you substantiate this through consumer testing.
Product benchmarking
We can benchmark your product against its competitors or earlier versions to validate its positioning.
Price measurements
We can help you ascertain the right price for your product in its intended marketplace.
Emotional research
We help you understand and measure consumers’ emotional response to your product not just its sensory properties.
Market insight
Market insight is essential in order to undertake successful production innovation and position and market your product accurately.
Ingredient substitution
If you’re changing an ingredient in your product, then you’ll want to know how consumers will respond to this – we can undertake consumer and trained panel testing to discover this for you.
Virtual reality testing
Take a look at how Leatherhead can provide valuable results from testing your products in context using virtual reality.
Product innovation
Developing and bringing new products to market safely and complying with the necessary regulation yet within accelerated deadlines is critical. Leatherhead’s experienced team of food scientists, microscopists and researchers help food and drink companies with every step of the innovation cycle. Our experts can offer assistance from idea generation and prototype development, through to scale-up and pre-launch product optimisation, to post-launch product monitoring and maintenance.
New product development
With a deep expertise in all aspects of food science and nutrition, our innovation teams can help you realise ideas and strategies for new product development.
Existing product development
We can help you reformulate existing foods & beverage products in line with market, consumer, regulatory, business -strategy and cost reasons.
Ingredients intelligence
We can help you stay abreast of the “next big thing” in ingredients – whether that’s the latest superfood or the latest sugar replacement.
Sugar reduction
We can help you reformulate a product with a view to reducing its sugar content and have a fully defined process to help you fast-track this.
Nutrition intelligence
Our team of nutritionists are continually scanning the nutrition landscape and can keep you abreast of the latest research, regulation and guidance which could impact your product strategy.
Nutrition testing
We can assist you in testing how your food & beverage products into broader nutritional programmes or strategies with services such as GI/GR and satiety testing services.
Cooking instructions
Our cooking instructions teams create and verify the cooking instructions found on food labels.
Product blueprinting
We can help you with product reformulation using our unique blueprinting service
