Insights, regulation and the latest developments in safety assessment, analytics and cosmetics.
A capsule can look like a food supplement and still raise medicinal-product questions. Learn how the EU assesses borderline products by presentation and function,…
EU Regulation 2026/1427 authorises a new enzymatically produced egg membrane hydrolysate for adult food supplements at up to 500 mg/day. But protected data, supplier…
A supplement can meet its label claim on production day and still fail later. Learn why nutrient degradation, overages, packaging and real-time stability testing…
Food contaminant compliance in the EU has changed again. On 29 July 2026, the European Commission adopted Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1825, amending Regulation (EU)…
A supplier Certificate of Analysis is valuable evidence, but it is not a complete EU compliance strategy. Learn the difference between specifications, batch COAs…
A second Annex update in the same year On 27 April 2026, the European Commission published Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/909, amending Annexes II and…
Launching a cosmetic product in the European Union requires several connected workstreams: The individual activities are manageable. The difficulty is completing them in the…
The European Commission notified a new draft amendment to the EU Cosmetics Regulation on 8 July 2026. The proposal would prohibit or restrict several…
International cosmetic brands frequently assume that entering the European Union requires repeating every test and rebuilding every document from the beginning. That is not…
For food, supplement and functional-product brands outside the European Union, market entry requires more than laboratory testing or finding a distributor. Products need to…
