Food regulatory consulting · Australia & New Zealand
I check labels, formulations and packaging against the Food Standards Code — before you print, before you ship. Ten years in Australian food manufacturing, and I can do all of it in Italian.
Independent consultant — you deal directly with the person doing the work.
Example label review. Three issues found on this label:
Every panel, claim and declaration checked line by line.
Services
Scoped, practical work: a label checked before it goes to print, a formulation that has to change, a pack that has to carry the right marks.
A line-by-line check of your artwork against the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, before it goes to print or into a container.
Getting the product itself right — so the label has something compliant to describe.
What the pack itself has to carry, and what it is allowed to say.
Who you are working with
Ten years in the Australian food industry across multiple categories, on the manufacturing side — where a compliance decision has to survive a production line, a retailer spec and an audit, not just a document review.
You deal with me directly. I read your artwork, your specification and your ingredient declarations myself, and I tell you plainly what will pass and what won’t.
I’m a native Italian speaker. If you’re exporting from Italy, we can work entirely in Italian — your technical file, your supplier declarations, your questions — and I’ll translate it into what the Food Standards Code actually requires.
Why it matters
Most of them are avoidable with a review before you ship. The figures below come from FSANZ, the Department of Agriculture and the Australian National Audit Office.
What stops imported food entering Australia.
81.3%
of all imported food non-compliance cases in 2020 were labelling — 2,562 of 3,140, out of 152,289 tests conducted, 65,053 of them label checks.
Source: Dept. of Agriculture, via FoodNavigator-Asia79%
of imported food that failed inspection failed because of labelling — even though overall compliance sat at 98.5%.
Source: Australian National Audit Office100%
of a producer’s future consignments can be referred for inspection after a failure, until a compliance history is re-established — five consecutive passes for surveillance food. One label mistake becomes an ongoing cost, not a one-off.
Source: DAFF Failing Food ReportsWhat sends Australian food back off it.
38%
of the 92 food recalls FSANZ coordinated in 2025 were caused by undeclared allergens, mostly from labelling errors. The 10-year average is 87 recalls.
Source: FSANZ44%
(192) of all Australian food recalls between 2019 and 2023 were undeclared allergens, with packaging and label errors the single most common root cause.
Source: FSANZ data via Food Safety MagazineNext step
Tell me what you’re making and where it’s going. I’ll come back with what I’d check, how long it takes and what it costs — no obligation.