Our Services
Our skills and experience can help you in many areas of food product development, quality systems management, production, packaging, and marketing.
Product Development, Labelling, Packaging
Nutrition calculation and labelling, recipe management, formulation balancing, data analysis, and experimental design for product and process optimisation.
Ingredient listing, nutrition information and nutrition claims. Allergen alerts and characterising ingredients. Compliance with the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, for locally made or imported products. Compliance with overseas legislation for export products.
Development of new food formulations from concept to commercialisation. Product, ingredients, process, plant, packaging, quality systems, shelf life. Complete project management for product launches.
Calculation of food composition and nutritional data using nutrition software and extensive food databases.
Packaging for food protection, storage, handling and transport, refrigeration, safety, shelf life, shelf life extension, presentation and display.
Compliance with the New Zealand Supplemented Food Standard. Ingredients, composition, vitamin and mineral fortification limits, and claims, for food type dietary supplements.
Food Quality, Safety and Compliance
Allergen Management
Identification of risks in products and processes, ingredients and formulations, reduction of cross contamination, labelling and more.
Food Microbiology
Identification of risks in products and processes. Assistance with sampling programmes. Challenge testing and interpretation of results.
Food Safety Programmes
HACCP-based food safety regimes, FSP’s, Risk Management Programmes (RMP’s), WQA, BRC, internal audits, supplier audits, MSDS.
Food Standards Compliance
Advice on Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Food Standards. Assistance with food hygiene standards. Code amendment submissions.
Quality Systems Documentation
Improvements to quality system documentation to meet NZFSA and customer requirements. Integration of food safety, environmental and quality requirements into one documented system.
Shelf Life Extension
Assist in finding ways of extending the shelf life of your products without loss of quality. Test protocols and sensory evaluation.
Food Manufacturing & Production
Food Imports & Exports
Regulatory requirements, labelling, composition and approved additives for foods for import and export.
Food Manufacturing
Identification of issues in food manufacturing processes. Advice on food process improvement for quality, safety, yield, or productivity gains.
Process Improvement
Identification of inefficiencies, yield and productivity issues in manufacturing processes, cost reduction and quality improvement.
Troubleshooting
Identify problems and provide solutions. In supply chain, processing, quality, microbiology, packaging, storage
Business Development & Management
Business development
Strategic planning, market development, and expertise in Operations, Quality Management, R&D, NPD, technology transfer, business communications.
Marketing
Market and product trends, market development, industrial marketing, market research, sensory evaluation, regulatory advice, preparation of press releases, copy for websites, maintaining blogs/FB pages etc.
Mentoring
Ongoing assistance to ensure new procedures and processes are implemented successfully.
Project Management
Management and facilitation of international projects and New Zealand projects. Assistance with the design, stages, critical steps and timing of any project. Concept development, implementation, ongoing monitoring, evaluation.
Strategic Planning
Business analysis and advice on utilisation of new technologies, market development, market and product trends
Training
Training for professional development, food safety, hygiene and quality systems training, product development, software, microbiology.
Technical Writing Services
Technical/academic writing for reports, brochures, websites, handbooks
Editing – academic materials and general written material
Print production management
Copy for websites, experience in maintaining websites/online newsletters
Networking.
