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.
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.
Pet food regulatory advice
Our experts give advice and support for formulation, validation, substantiation and authorisation of your pet food product.
Horizon scanning
Empower your team with information on future change and provide clarity to internal stakeholders with horizon scanning.
Dossiers
Our experts can guide you through the registration process for Novel Foods, GRAS, PARNUT, food supplements and natural mineral water.
Regulatory review of concepts, technologies and claims
De-risk your innovation pipeline and avoid costly mistakes by incorporating regulatory reviews at point of inception.
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.
Food safety and quality
We can assess food safety risk, design effective controls and verify their efficacy
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.
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.
Cooking instructions
Our cooking instructions teams create and verify the cooking instructions found on food labels.
Consumer & sensory insight
Consumer & sensory insight services are now provided by our sister company, Sagentia Innovation.
