Navigating Nutrition and Health Claims for Compliance and Clarity

The session will highlight how businesses can accurately and effectively communicate the nutritional and health benefits of their products to consumers. 

Kindly hosted by Georgina Stewart, The Nutrient Gap, the webinar provides a detailed exploration of nutrition and health claims, focusing on their role in guiding consumer choices and ensuring regulatory compliance. Attendees will gain an understanding of the legal framework surrounding these claims, including key retained EU regulations such as Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 and Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011. 

Relevance to Food and Drink Businesses

•  Regulatory Compliance

Ensures businesses meet strict legal requirements when making claims on packaging, advertising, or labelling, avoiding fines and reputational damage.

• Consumer Trust

Educates businesses on how to use evidence-based claims to build credibility and foster trust with health-conscious customers.

• Competitive Advantage

Demonstrates how to leverage permitted nutrition and health claims to differentiate products in a competitive market.

• Practical Application

Provides step-by-step guidance and examples to help businesses identify opportunities for compliant claims while adhering to regulations.

The presentation emphasises that nutrition and health claims are powerful tools for food and drink businesses to communicate product benefits, but they must be used responsibly and comply with strict regulatory standards. By understanding the legal framework, and applying best practices in labelling and advertising, businesses can build consumer trust, differentiate their products, and ensure compliance while navigating a competitive market.

About the speaker
Georgina Stewart is a nutrition adviser and founder of The Nutrient Gap. She founded The Nutrient Gap, a food consultancy company in 2020 after spending over a decade working in the sports nutrition industry.

Georgina has worked for major food brands like Heinz, own label Amazon products, Waitrose, and Wingstop, along with a leading sports brand Wiggle. Her roles have included product development, supply chain, labelling compliance and nutritional and allergen profiling for the out-of-home sector. Georgina is also an expert in nutrition and health claims and is passionate about transparency within the food industry.  She is a big champion of challenger brands having more exposure in the retail sector.

Georgina is a judge for The Quality Awards and the Weetabix Food & Drink Awards in Northamptonshire. She is also a professional member of the Royal Society of Public Health committed to improving public health through better nutrition.

About the Nutrient Gap 
The Nutrient Gap helps food brands navigate the complex world of product information and compliance, making their journey to the supermarket shelf and onwards to the consumer’s table, as simple as possible and stress-free. They handle all the complex requirements of what goes on product packaging, ensuring that product information is complete, correct and compliant.

Typically, clients come to them when they’re nearly ready to launch and they’ve just realised that getting all the right information onto their product packaging – or into their specifications – is a lot harder than they realised. Sometimes, they’ve already tried to launch and been pushed back for incorrect information. Sometimes, they’ve had a go at a DIY approach and have realised it’s just not worth it to spend so much time and still get things wrong.  They help them to navigate the minefield of food legislation.