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What’s Next for Food & Drink? Our Experts’ Predictions for 2026

2025 has been a busy year for the food and beverage industry, full of fast-paced regulatory changes, widespread flavour innovation, and consumer buying choices influenced by cost, health, and nostalgia. As 2026 approaches, the industry shows no signs of slowing down. To help you get up to speed on what to expect for food and…

The Peanut Diaries: School and Social Occasions

“When your child is really young, we, as parents, have almost total control over what and when our children eat (save for those times they find a particularly juicy-looking leftover sweet on the playground floor). It’s a slow process and doesn’t happen all at once, but as they get older, that level of total control…

The Peanut Diaries: Navigating Social Events and Celebrations with Food Allergies

“Raising a child with an allergy is tricky at times. As they get older and grow more independent, it is natural that as a parent you have less and less control over your child’s diet. My son is only five years old, but we’ve already been faced with difficult situations and choices, and as parents…

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World Water Day – Labelling Water

Water seems simple but is actually far from it.  Water is a life giver, and we cannot do without clean...
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Novel Alternative Proteins: What can we expect for the Future?

Consumers are becoming more aware of their health, the environment and being sustainable. The impact of conventional farming on the climate, alongside...
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Novel Alternative Proteins: Sustainable Healthy Plant Diets – Ashbury

The demand for alternatives to animal products is growing as consumers grow more concerned about their health and the environment....
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Novel Alternative Proteins: A Path to Sustainable Healthy Diets, Insect...

The demand for alternatives to animal products is growing as consumers grow more concerned about their health and the environment.   In response...
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The Costly Business of Making Flimsy Sustainability Claims

In a world where citizen journalism is the norm and making one wrong business decision can cause irreversible reputational and...
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Compliance and New Product Development (NPD): Starting Compliance Early

The new product development process should consider compliance from the beginning of your journey to avoid producing food that does...
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Tips for Naming ‘Alternative’ Products Wisely

Amendment 171 (which would have banned the use of dairy-based terms being used for plant-based alternatives) may be off the...
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Balancing the Risks – May Contain vs. Vegan Claims

With vegans varying in lifestyle strictness, and there being no legal definition of what constitutes “vegan” in EU or UK...
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What you need to know about the changes to Canadian labelling regulations

Laura Fitzpatrick is one of our International Regulatory Advisors who specialises in Canadian and French food legislation. She’s put together...
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Baby food and heavy metals: How does US federal law compare to EU and UK...

We spoke to our Product Information Advisors, Jenny Pfleger (UK) and Marisa Them (US) about the regulations that govern the...
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Brexit Bite 5 – What are Rules of Origin (RoO): Steps to take and...

Rules of Origin have been under the spotlight since the end of the transition and we've had many questions from...
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Brexit changes in the food and drink industry – where you can find...

Trade talks are full steam ahead as the rules and regulations to govern post transition trade are established. Our latest...
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