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ArticleMoving AI beyond pilot: a compliance guide for food businesses
AI can sharpen forecasts, accelerate traceability and support customer communications. But if an AI-related failure contributes to a safety or compliance problem, the food business may still face a recall, enforcement action and the regulator’s questions. Here is what technical and compliance leaders need to consider before moving AI from pilot into production.
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The institute will unite obesity research, cardiovascular science and industry to accelerate targeted prevention, treatment and improved national health outcomes.
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McVitie’s owner pladis aims to double volumes from better-balanced products through reformulation, innovation and expansion into additional markets by 2030.
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From ingredients to intelligence: building the data foundation for AI-driven food innovation
AI is reshaping food innovation, but its success depends on the quality of the data beneath it. Discover why structured product data is becoming the foundation for faster formulation, streamlined compliance and smarter decision-making.
Measuring what matters: water quality analysis with UV-Visible spectrophotometry
Join this webinar to explore how UV-Visible spectrophotometry can support reliable water quality analysis across a range of applications.
Lab Meets Line: How Leading Manufacturers are Closing the Quality Data Gap
Join this webinar to explore the hidden gap between lab testing and process automation, and how leading food manufacturers are closing it with real-time quality data.
Signal or noise? Making sense of food’s most confusing regulations
Ultra-processed foods. Front-of-pack labelling. Ingredient transparency. No fixed deadlines, only shifting science and sentiment. We’ll show you how to read those signals early and turn them into a commercial edge: getting products to market faster, keeping them on shelves longer, and helping the regulatory shift from gatekeeper to a proactive, strategic function the business can build growth plans around.
Human safety assessment for novel foods: de-risking the path from concept to compliance
Join this webinar to hear from food safety experts as they explore tiered testing strategies, New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and the evolving regulatory landscape for novel food and food improvement agent approval.
From ingredients to intelligence: building the data foundation for AI-driven food innovation
Measuring what matters: water quality analysis with UV-Visible spectrophotometry
Lab Meets Line: How Leading Manufacturers are Closing the Quality Data Gap
Signal or noise? Making sense of food’s most confusing regulations
Human safety assessment for novel foods: de-risking the path from concept to compliance
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