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Foods that can make a health claim have a commercial advantage and those consumers suffering menopause symptoms would represent a significant target for marketing. However, there are specific requirements that need to be met outlined in this article.

Making a nutrition claim on your food product is a great marketing tool in these diet and health conscious times; however these claims are strictly applied and enforced. A guide is provided to some of the main pitfalls that may befall a marketer in referencing any nutritional facts about their food product.

All businesses, no matter what size are likely to experience a crisis situation. Make sure you have a plan in place and have stress-tested your working practices so you can survive and thrive.

On World Egg Day, it is essential that free range egg producers are supported in allowing eggs to be marketed as free range even when extended compulsory housing orders are in place for bird flu.

The growth of the gig economy has provided a renewed focus on the division of employment rights between self-employed, workers and employees. Is your food business exposed to the use of agency and contract workers? What is their legal status? 3 key factors to consider

Nuisance is unreasonable interference with another party’s use of land.  Harvest and certain industrial practices always brings out some instances of conflict between the use of land and other's reasonable enjoyment. See this article for a timely revival of our assessment on the different sorts of nuisance and how best to avoid them.

With high numbers and rates of fatal injury, agriculture is one of the riskiest industry sectors for accidents at work. The key message from this article is to identify your risks and address them. Make sure that each aspect of your operation has been risk assessed; that those risk assessments have been acted on; and that they are kept up to date.

A positive step for the edible insect market means certain edible insects may be governed by the transition period and remain on the market. This shows a pragmatic risk based approach by the FSA finally in operation.

Food labelling address change requirements that were due to mean a UK Food Business Operator (FBO) must be listed on food imported from the EU or ‘UK’/’Non-UK’ identification of origin labelling, rather than EU/Non-EU, has been delayed from 1 October 2022 until 1 January 2024.

Green and sustainability claims are under increased scrutiny from regulators, enforcement bodies and consumer activists. An overview of the key themes from recent ASA adjudications highlights 4 critical areas to get right.

There are a range of restrictions on the promotion of certain specified foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) that will be coming into force.  Most notably restrictions on location both in-store and online within certain qualifying businesses from next month, 1 October 2022.

The 2 Issues that will determine success or failure for food companies in 2022. We have asked some of our clients in the food and agri sector what will be the crucial aspects to concentrate on for their businesses in the coming months of 2022.