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Bottles of red, orange and green juice beside fruit, with a magnified circle showing budding yeast cells next to a bulging bottle and a laboratory microscope

Slimsy Squash Recall: Swollen Bottles, Spoilage Yeast and How Formulators Prevent It

South Africa's NCC recalled 17,364 bottles of Slimsy pomegranate...
Bottled orange, berry, pineapple and chia-seed drinks with fresh fruit beside test tubes showing settled sediment, a microscope and a screen displaying a stability scan

Beverage Stability Testing for UAE Launches: Physical, Chemical and Microbial Tests

A drink can pass every check at filling and still fail on the shelf...
Gummy supplement production: gelatin and sugar in bowls beside a pan of red gummy mass, a nozzle depositing syrup into a silicone mould, and finished gummy bears beside supplement jars

How to Formulate a Gummy Supplement: Base, Actives, Overage and Stability (2026)

A gummy supplement must hold its dose inside an acidic, wet...
Jar of red and orange gummy supplements beside a ticked compliance checklist, regulation books, botanical powders and softgels, with an Indian government building and the national flag in the background

FSSAI Nutraceutical Regulations in India: Categories, Limits and Labelling (2026)

India’s nutraceutical rules sit in two texts: the notified 2016...
Colourful gummy supplements spilling from a glass jar beside an orange, strawberries, blueberries, mint and supplement bottles

Gummy Supplements Market in India: Why Gummies Are Winning and Where They Fail (2026)

India’s gummy supplements market is growing faster than the global...
Scientist holding an ingredient jar beside fresh produce, a compliance checklist with a blue shield, the US Capitol, packaged foods in pouches, jars and cans, and a shopping trolley in a supermarket aisle

FDA Food Facility Registration: How to Launch a Food Product in the US (2026)

Who must register with FDA, how FURLS, the UFI and U.S. agent rules...
Snack, nut, powder, meat and biscuit packs beside a layered barrier film that blocks water droplets and oxygen molecules, with India Gate in the background

Food Packaging Materials for Shelf Life in India: Oxygen and Moisture Barriers by Product Type

How to choose food packaging materials for shelf life in India: what...
Sugar being cut from a bakery recipe: a bowl of sugar with a downward arrow, chocolate chip cookies on a tray, a gloved scientist inspecting a cookie and cookies moving along a production oven conveyor

Sugar Reduction in Bakery Products: How to Reformulate for the US Market (2026)

What sucrose does in biscuits and cakes, how fibres, sweeteners...
Three-panel illustration: a red supplement bottle with capsules and a warning triangle, red capsules examined with tweezers beside chromatogram peaks and test tubes in a laboratory, and a quality checklist with a magnifying glass, a green shield and shipping boxes on a conveyor

Tainted Supplement Recall: What the WAP Case Teaches About Identity Testing

FDA found sildenafil, tadalafil and flibanserin in WAP Sensual...
Food product development from concept to shelf: recipe sketches and ingredients, a scientist pipetting samples, a sensory tester, a pilot filling line and finished bottled sauces

Food Product Development Timeline: Stages, Lead Times and What Adds Months (2026)

How long does it take to develop a food product? A stage-by-stage food...
Tomato sauce simmering in a kitchen pan beside fresh tomatoes, onions and spices, an arrow to a stirred stainless-steel pilot kettle of sauce, and filled jars on a conveyor line

How to Scale Up a Recipe from Kitchen to Pilot Plant: A Worked 5 kg to 200 kg Example

Multiplying a recipe fixes the weights, not the process. A worked 5 kg...
Packaged foods, a nutraceutical jar and a compliance checklist with a green shield in front of the Supreme Court of India, beside a scientist inspecting a sample jar in a food plant

FSSAI Product Approval for Non-Specified and Proprietary Foods: 2026 Checklist

Does your product need FSSAI product approval? How to tell proprietary...
Product development stages left to right: a brief on a clipboard, weighed ingredients, a lab beaker on a balance, a formulator tasting samples, stability jars on a shelf and filled jars on a production line

Food Formulation Process: From Product Brief to Stable Prototype (2026)

Six gated steps take a product brief to a stable prototype:...
Food jars of juice, yogurt, pesto, tomato sauce and olive oil beside four laboratory flasks of clear, pale, pink and golden test liquids, with icons for pH, fat and temperature and plastic, can and pouch packaging layers

How Food pH, Fat and Temperature Set GCC Migration Test Conditions (2026)

A food’s pH, fat content and serving temperature decide the simulant...
Gloved scientist holding a petri dish of granola beside packaged foods, with stability chambers marked by heat and chill icons and a row of clock icons showing storage over time

Real-Time vs Accelerated Shelf-Life Testing for Food: Methods, Timelines and Cost Drivers

Accelerated shelf-life testing gives a fast estimate; real-time...