Food Standards - Expectations In Sports Nutrition Manufacture

As a UK Food Business Operator, you’re responsible for ensuring that food law is complied with in your facility and when labelling your products. Regardless of the complexities in this area of regulation, compliance is a puzzle you need to solve. This quick guide to food standards in sports nutrition manufacture will help you with these responsibilities in easy, need-to-know steps. The Law Sees Supplements as Food In the UK, sports nutrition products that complement a normal diet are classed as food supplements. No matter whether they’re tablets, powders, drinks or bars, if they make nutritional and health claims then they’re covered by the Department for Health’s Food Standards Regulations. As a business in sports nutrition manufacture, you’re responsible for ensuring that you: design and construct your premises to the legal requirements manufacture food that is safe, traceable and clearly labelled have processes in place to enable the withdrawal or recall of unsafe products comply with all import and export laws if applicable Just starting out in sports nutrition manufacturing? Then you’ll need to register your manufacturing premises with your environmental health service at least 28 days before you start production. Supply and Distribution Being food-safe means keeping end-to-end records so that you can trace product coming in and going out. You are legally required to keep accessible documents of all your ingredient suppliers and every component of each batch must be traceable. The FSA have detailed information on their website to help you. Sales must also be fully documented so you can identify stockists should there be a problem with any of your product.

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