CAN YOU CONFIDENTLY NAVIGATE EUROPEAN FOOD LAWS TO PRODUCE A COMPLIANT FOOD LABEL?

Bypass years of legal training to understand and confidently apply EU & UK food regulations to food labelling.

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  • Isn’t it time you ensure your staff have the skills and regulatory knowledge to guide your business in compliant food labelling, health claims, novel foods and food law enforcement?
  • Are your sure your staff are confident and effective in the implementation of European or UK food law for your business?
  • Can you rely on the knowledge and training your staff have received to keep your business and management protected against the risks associated from poorly implemented food law standards?
  • Do you have regulatory affairs staff or marketing team members needed to lease with outside legal counsel but have limited understanding of functional foods regulations to ask those important questions?
  • Is EU food law so complex that understanding what laws apply in your country is confusing requiring greater risks or repeated crisis management due to enforcement?
  • Do you want a food labelling training course that is delivered in convenient bite size chunks to fit into your staff busy work and family life?
  • Do you want to show your staff your care about their progressions and future by giving them access to an accredited continued professional develop (CPD) certificate in food law?
INTRODUCING THE

Certificate in Food Law
Training Program

A professional, comprehensive, expert designed, food law & labelling course that’s accessible 24/7 from home, work or on the move for those required to label food and beverages that have a beneficial health effect.

After just 12 weeks your staff/team can be certified and trained with the skills needed to assess and label foods for the UK and EU market.

Save your business the heartache of non-compliant product enforcement and over reliance on external legal consultants.

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EXPERT DESIGNED TRAINING COURSES

Legal Foods is a firm that has been delivering focused regulatory and legal advice to food businesses for over two decades. Our reputation and hands on experience speaks for itself with a wide knowledge of the functional food supply chain and has placed over a 1000 compliant products and ingredients onto the European market.

European food law compliance has never been so important with the biggest changes to legislation occurring over the last decade. Choosing the right partner to ensure compliance is a critical component of and any food businesses strategy. Well trained and educated food law advisors are a must have and we can help provide training to your team to develop that knowledge for your business.

Our in-person and online training academy delivers a client-driven approach to food law training taking on board both commercial and legal requirements to ensure you have the latest regulatory knowledge and importantly the practical skills to keep products compliant and competitive.

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WHY THE FOOD LAW TRAINING ACADEMY?
COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING

Expert analysis and training in labelling, novel foods, health claims and more in just 12 weeks.

REAL WORLD APPLICATION

Learn the legal fundamentals and how to practically apply them during a label review.

20 YEARS OF HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

8 unique modules on the legal requirements of food law training you to advise on label compliance.

STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO CERTIFICATION

Providing your team access training to fit into your lifestyle and work commitments begging with the fundamentals of EU labelling laws to the practical assessment of real products.

COST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM

The end goal of our unique course is the development of expertly trained staff via online learning accessible 24/7. The result a labelling skill set without taking time away from day-to-day work.

TRAINED BY THE BEST

Dr Mark Tallon, a leading recognised European food law expert, has personally developed this course with your employees in mind. Legal understanding- yes, Practical knowledge – yes, Clear course outcome – 100%.

CERTIFICATE IN FOOD LAW COURSE

These modules are covered in the course.

COMPETENT AUTHORITIES & EU LAW FUNDAMENTALS

Comprises 2 lessons to provide an overview of the regulatory framework of the EU, its institutions, the official controls in the UK and a review of the primary authority scheme. In addition, an assessment and update of the effect of BREXIT on UK law on future impacts on the horizon.

FOOD LABELLING

Comprising 5 lessons covering the name of the food, ingredients list, additives, QUID, nutrition declaration & durability, COOL and the requirements over presentation of information (e.g., font size, clarity etc). Focus is on Reg. 1169/20011.

HEALTH, NUTRITION & GREEN CLAIMS

Detailed knowledge as a result of the analysis of health claims legislation, on-pack examples, and legislation extending beyond Health & Nutrition claims to control of claims within the UCPA and the Food Information Regulation. New for 2024 our comprehensive training on Green claims directives & code.

FOOD SUPPLEMENTS & FORTIFIED FOODS

An in-depth assessment of the legal requirements regarding the labelling and compositional requirements of food supplements (FS) and fortified foods (FF) including meal replacement products (MRPs).

BORDERLINE MEDICINES, NOVEL FOODS & BOTANICALS

A detailed explanation of what risks a food being classified as a medicine and where the borderline sits based on case law. The basis of novel foods is covered including the legal definition and practical resources for their assessment beyond the novel foods catalogue. Finally, a review of botanicals and the place of mutual recognition when trying to market foods containing such ingredients across the EU.

FOOD LAW - ENFORCEMENT & DEFENCE

A review of the official enforcement controls in the UK and the factors impacting prosecution and sentencing structures. Understanding gap fillers in food law enforcement such as fraud act, companies act and more. Finally, to provide an understanding of who is liable to prosecution for food law breaches (company vs. management vs. staff vs supply chain).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & FUNCTIONAL FOODS

Intellectual property is now a major part of food business value and key to protection of brand identity and product differentiation. Food business face increased use of branded ingredients, a saturation of product names and reliance on bespoke company videos and imagery. These challenges require food law experts to have an understanding of trademark, patent, copyright, designs and trade secrets to ensure NPD and marketing compliance.

CASE LAW UPDATES FROM THE CJEU

An overview and analysis of key court opinions over the period of 2020-2022 covering labelling, claims, medicinal classifications to name a few.

PRACTICAL FOOD LAW TRAINING & EXAM PREP

A review of 8 products across 4 categories as they related to being compliant or none-complaint with food law legislation. The session will provide hands on experience of auditing real-life products to consider how to implement the training from the prior 7 modules. Finally, an overview of the exam structure, its marking and related certification.

VIEW SAMPLE LESSON

You have questions. We have answers.
If your company and staff are directly involved in advising on legal labels and compositional compliance of food products for food supplements and functional foods (e.g. foods that often carry health claims) then this course is for you.
You hit the nail on the head – General food law course…That’s not what we provide. Our course is bespoke and tailored for functional foods that deliver a health benefit. These are labels with claims and a composition that is complex so we are not teaching your staff how to label a tin of soup. We are training your team to assess botanicals, high dose vitamin and mineral products and often substances that maybe borderline medicines. The rise of online training has many benefits including 24/7 access allowing employees to fit training around working hours and what may sometimes be busy periods. The course is designed so that students will have time to fit in the course based on work and lifestyle commitments including that of family. Delivered in smaller bite sized lessons with a practical as well as theoretical approach to learning as well as the ability to re-review training during and for 6 months following the course completion is not an option for in-person training.
We begin offering discounts for 3 or more students. Just complete the form at the bottom of this page to start the conversation.
The course runs 3 times per year and you can enrol well before the course begins to receive a discount. As a business we offer significant discounts for registering more than 3 staff.
The course can be accessed for those simply wanting to gain continued professional development (CPD). On successful completion of all modules and the 16 MCQs within the course then they will receive a CPD certificate covering 21 hours of training time.
Legal Foods has been providing hands-on European food law compliance work for over 20 years and successfully reviewed over 1000 functional products. Dr Mark Tallon as the course designer and Managing partner of Legal Foods has extensive knowledge in food and European law as well as a scientific back group in nutritional biochemistry. His reputation as a food law expert is well known in the industry surrounding functional foods and ingredients. This should give confidence that the course is a perfect fit for your business.
At this time the course is not open to other consultancies and is primarily aimed at individuals looking to access training to become a consultant or food businesses that carry out food law compliance with an internal regulatory team. However, we are happy to discuss this further if you wish so, please reach out at: [email protected]

MEET THE TRAINER

Dr Mark J. Tallon, LLM PhD

Dr Tallon is a chartered scientist and registered nutritionist with a master’s degree in Nutritional sciences (University of Liverpool), doctorate in nutritional biochemistry (University of Southampton). In addition, he holds master’s degrees in food law (De Montfort), European law (Kings College, London) and Intellectual Property Law (University of Oxford). He has over 200 publications in trade and peer preview and holds followships with the Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Medicine and the Institute of Food Science and Technology.

He is past chair and founder of the Food Law group of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and vice-chair of European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) of whom he represented on the Business Expert (Food Standards and Labelling) Group (BExG). His current role is as Managing Partner of the Legal Products Group® representing food and cosmetics businesses and trade associations in all aspects of European food law. He expertise includes the preparation of health claim submissions, product labelling, enforcement defence, novel food applications and cosmetic safety assessments. In addition to his management roles, he is a registered and trained expert witness with experience of being instructed by EU and US law firms in the commercial litigation of food companies.