Food Product Development

Culinary excellence is becoming more important than ever. Due to the growth of foodies and foodie culture, culinary trends are evolving at unprecedented rates. This growing interest in food can be very demanding and challenging for food companies to deliver the taste experiences in the way top restaurant chefs do. Chef Consulting Services are ideally placed and equipped to help your company deliver on customer expectations.

From formulating bespoke recipes or improving existing recipes, to recommending new products for you to consider I can work with your staff to transform these food concepts into viable products in order to help keep your company ahead of the competition.

From Idea Generation to Recipe scale up and Handover of Production

I can develop concept and bring it through to finished product ensuring compliance with relevant customer policies ensuring you meet all your customer requirements. Working alongside your existing NPD staff and providing all necessary documentation and stage photographs during trials and pre scale up runs.  Assistance can also be provided to help with ingredient sourcing and equipment needs evaluation.

Consumer testing and taste panels can be organised for proposed new products and present them to potential trade customers and ensure that all new products are manufactured profitability and meet all food safety requirements.

Regulatory Food Law and Food Information

The main purpose of food law is to ensure a safe food supply and to protect consumers’ interests in relation to food. It is a food business operator’s legal responsibility to make sure that your business complies with food law and produces safe food.

Food hygiene legislation lays down rules which food business operators must comply with in order to supply safe food. These hygiene rules apply to all food businesses. Other pieces of food legislation deal with issues such as labelling, marketing standards, contaminants, additives and food contact materials (e.g. packaging).

Food information means information concerning a food and made available to the final consumer by means of a label, other accompanying material, or any other means including modern technology tools (such as a website or facebook) or verbal communication. Food information must be clear and accurate and not mislead the consumer. It must be legible and easy to understand. Food products sold in Ireland, including imported foods, must be labelled in English (with optional labelling in Irish in addition).