Does your product need FSSAI product approval? How to tell proprietary from non-specified food, what the Form I dossier needs, and what the 2025–26 charter says on fees and timelines....
A food’s pH, fat content and serving temperature decide the simulant and the worst-case time and temperature its packaging is tested at. How GCC migration test conditions are set, and what formulation can change....
Accelerated shelf-life testing gives a fast estimate; real-time testing gives the evidence behind the date. How each works, where Arrhenius extrapolation fails, and what drives study time and cost....
No GCC instrument reviewed sets a PFAS limit for food-contact paper, but GSO 2231, GSO 839 and UAE and Saudi conformity rules still apply. Here is what to ask suppliers for, how the EU limits...
GCC rules name probiotics in food supplements and milk products, but postbiotics have no published definition or claims route. Part 2 of our probiotics series compares claims, cost drivers and consumer perception for ambient functional...
No GCC authority or halal certifier has published a ruling on precision-fermented whey, casein or fats. This map sets out what FDA, EFSA and SFA have reviewed, what GCC halal rules cover, and the host,...
A supplement can pass release testing and still fall below its UAE label claim after hot storage. This guide shows how to size overage from final-pack stability data so potency stays inside Dubai Municipality's 80–120%...
One formulation, one master technical file, three emirates: how to map UAE food-law penalties and sequence reformulation and submissions across ADAFSA, Dubai Municipality and Sharjah....
UAE Nutri-Mark reformulation is the staged product redesign that improves a product’s A-E nutrient-profiling grade under Abu Dhabi’s QCC guideline ADG-044-2024, sequenced SKU by SKU to protect taste, texture and stability. A category-specific points algorithm...
Nutri-Mark A reformulation in the UAE is a product-redesign problem, not simply a labelling exercise. Nutri-Mark uses a nutrient profiling model that counts energy, sugars, saturated fat and sodium against a product, and fibre, protein,...