Why Choose Food Research Lab's FRL as Your Food Product Development (FPD) Consultant and Partner?

There are several options in almost every product area in today’s market, and the difficulty is in coming up with unique items that stand out and connect with customers. Food Research Lab's Food Research Lab (FRL) takes a holistic approach to creating food and beverage products. We define, demographically target, and build effective goods through a sequential process for category selection and comprehension. The client can visit the lab to learn the process. We offer unlimited rounds of revisions to ensure customer satisfaction. The final product prototype, along with the documentation process, including the video (through email), will be shipped to the client, and in case the client is not satisfied with the video, a food technology consultant will visit the place for the product demo at the client’s costs.

What are the different forms that you deliver the Food Product Formulations?

The food industry is witnessing a new form of consumption. Keeping that in mind, we can formulate the products in the form of ready-to-eat, ready-to-drink, ready-to-mix, ready-to-serve, and ready-to-cook food products. We use ingredients that offer an added value to the development and improve its indulgence and sustainability in terms of its functional ingredients, plant-based food dyes, and natural preservatives with a clean label.

What are the sectors Food Research Lab cover?

We cover a wide range of sectors such as soups, sauces and dips, chips, tortillas, dry beverage powder, plant-based products, masalas, puddings, instant mixes and many more.

How is sensory testing been carried out?

Our sensory examination leads to the precise formulation and recipe recommendations. We develop data-driven design models based on sensory research and customer insights. The fact-based design methodology used by Food Research Lab reduces risk and gives our clients market confidence while cutting development time in half. With our dedicated sensory lab facility, our team takes satisfaction in creating and optimizing successful products in the marketplace, generating a favourable return on investment, and developing brand advocates.

India's new guidelines for food safety standard for Infants

24 Sep

The new food safety standards for infant nutrition in India.

by Food Research Lab

in Regulation Updates

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Introduction:

In compliance with the Food Safety Standards Act of 2006, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued an article in the “Gazette notification of Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) First Amendment Regulations, 2022” on August 31st, 2022. The Infant nutrition food regulation comes into effect from October 1^st 2022, onwards.

Key takeaway:

The following modifications have been made to the document:

The “Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011” are replaced by the “Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020” in Regulation 4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020.

Infant formula in powder form prepared without the addition of any vegetable oil, linoleate, vitamin E, or other additives may be labelled as “Infant Milk Food” under sub-regulation 2 of regulation 7.

The terms “pH adjusting agents” in regulation ten are suggested to be substituted with “Acidity regulators.”