Our Services

FoodLegal provides practical guidance and advice for companies looking to establish a new product. We also work with marketers, product developers and development teams to address the regulatory aspects of bringing a new product to market.

FoodLegal can assess your marketing and media campaigns for compliance with relevant laws, including the Food Standards Code, the Australian Consumer Law, and other product specific regulations. We assess all forms of marketing, including labels, print, radio and television advertisements, websites and social media.

FoodLegal can assess your packaging, labelling and artwork for compliance with all relevant laws, including: the Food Standards Code, Australian Consumer Law, National Trade Measurement Regulations and the Country of Origin Information Standard.

We frame our advice in terms of level of risk to assist you in your commercial decision-making process.

We can provide special arrangements for bulk assessment work.

FoodLegal has experience preparing and drafting novel food submissions. Depending on your needs, we can assist you in your submission or submit on your behalf. We have a wide network of food scientists and food technologists to ensure the relevance of the content of a submission.

FoodLegal also has experience in preparing and drafting applications to introduce new ingredients for use in therapeutic goods and animal products.

FoodLegal can answer all your Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL) related questions, from required label update timeframes, how allergens must now be declared, how cross-contact and precautionary allergen statements are affected to what substances are no longer allergens and what can no longer be stated on the product label.

We can provide a fixed fee label review arrangement to advise about the new obligations and/or a private training session.

FoodLegal InHouse enables you to make compliance decisions & risk assessments with certainty. It reduces the expense of using external consultants and streamlines compliance steps to get your product to market.

Australia's premier periodical in food law and policy issues. It focuses specifically on analysis and commentary for regulatory compliance and the legal issues affecting food and food industry participants.

FL Direct simplifies and expedites compliance processes to speed up getting new products onto the shelf. It delivers timely data informing management decisions and reduces risk of non-compliance.

PRODUXIOM® is a Product Workflow platform that enables you to understand your processes in real time.

At FoodLegal we believe that education is crucial to keeping your competitive edge. Our most popular courses focus on the different regulatory aspects of developing and marketing food products, including:

• Food Labelling 101
• Health Claims
• Trending Claims
• Marketing to Children
• Country of Origin Labelling
• Fulfilment of compliance programs under the Australian Competition and Consumer Law

FoodLegal can provide tailored private training such as the latest Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL) training for individual companies to address their specific needs.

Bespoke training can be delivered on-site or online.

FoodLegal hosts Symposiums on hot topics including:

• Government regulatory requirements, standards, codes and claims pertaining to selling "healthier foods"
• Food fraud
• New regulatory developments for food Imports and Exports
• Analysis of the new Food Standards Code

As an integral part of the food industry, FoodLegal is regularly invited to speak and participate in Australian and international industry events, discussion panels and forums throughout the year.

Our recent speaking engagements include events run by the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST), Enterprise Singapore, IPI Singapore, Fine Foods Australia, the Australian Industry (AI) Group, the Singapore Dairy Conference, the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia (AMCHAM), and the Monash Food Innovation Centre.