Regulatory watch and practical guides.

Articles written by the crumble-ai team for R&D, quality and regulatory teams: decoding regulatory change, with concrete methods to keep your portfolio compliant.

Supply chain

EUDR: deforestation-free traceability becomes product data

Since late 2025, the EUDR requires deforestation-free due diligence on cocoa, coffee, soy and palm oil. What it changes for your product data.

28 July 2026 · 2 min readRead

Regulatory watch

PFAS in food packaging: the August 2026 ban with no sell-through period

The PPWR bans PFAS in food-contact packaging from 12 August 2026, with no stock run-off. How to prove compliance for every SKU.

21 July 2026 · 2 min readRead

Market intelligence

Ultra-processed foods: getting ahead of a definition that will hit your recipes

The ultra-processed concept is moving from a fuzzy idea to an operational regulatory definition. What it changes for formulation and clean label.

14 July 2026 · 2 min readRead

Market intelligence

The GLP-1 effect: reformulating for a generation that eats less but better

Ozempic-style treatments are reshaping demand: more protein, more fibre, smaller portions. How to adapt a product portfolio to the shift.

14 July 2026 · 2 min readRead

Regulatory watch

Front-of-pack nutrition labelling: a European patchwork to manage market by market

With no harmonised scheme, Nutri-Score, Keyhole and national logos coexist across Europe. Managing that variability per market is now a product-data challenge.

7 July 2026 · 2 min readRead

Market

AI Market Intelligence: why food innovation can no longer rely on consumer trends alone

Trend reports are no longer enough: real market intelligence crosses consumer signals with the internal know-how stored in your PLM. How AI changes the game.

30 June 2026 · 3 min readRead

Market intelligence

Precision fermentation and novel foods: innovating without breaking traceability

Fermentation-derived proteins and novel-food ingredients enter formulation with their own regulatory and traceability requirements.

30 June 2026 · 2 min readRead

Geopolitics

Designing food products for an unpredictable world

Geopolitical instability has become a formulation constraint. Ingredient sovereignty, multi-source formulation strategies, AI-assisted scenario generation.

18 June 2026 · 3 min readRead

Regulatory watch

PPWR: what the EU packaging regulation changes for food & beverage

The PPWR mandates recyclability, reduction and reuse of packaging by 2030. What food & beverage R&D and packaging teams need to anticipate.

12 June 2026 · 2 min readRead

Climate

When climate becomes a formulation variable

Droughts, erratic harvests, drifting ingredient functionality: why climate variability calls for adaptive, AI-assisted formulation.

5 June 2026 · 3 min readRead

Supply chain

From supply chains to supply networks

Product resilience is not built in logistics but at formulation time. Ingredient dependency, network optimisation, AI-driven sourcing recommendations.

28 May 2026 · 3 min readRead

Practical guide

Food labelling: the 7 most common EU 1169/2011 mistakes

Allergens not emphasised, ingredient lists out of order, outdated nutrition values: the 7 most common EU food-labelling errors and how to prevent them.

20 May 2026 · 3 min readRead

Price volatility

The end of static recipes

Cocoa, butter, coffee: commodity volatility makes frozen recipes untenable. The shift to dynamic, AI-driven formulations within defined quality bounds.

12 May 2026 · 3 min readRead

Regulation

Compliance is becoming an AI problem

From document retrieval to expert decision support: how AI is transforming regulatory affairs in the food industry.

25 April 2026 · 3 min readRead

Practical guide

Food additives: how to check maximum doses by category (EU 1333/2008)

An additive's maximum dose depends on the food category. A method to check your recipes against EU Regulation 1333/2008 and the Codex GSFA.

15 April 2026 · 2 min readRead