Large US-based provider of chemical, regulatory and compliance information services to global clientele.
Client Requirements
A suitable vendor partner for researching and capturing food compliance regulatory data into client database format. The project responsibilities included:
Characterization of groupings within Food Additives, and Food Flavorings, Food Ingredients and Food Contact
Capturing Regulatory knowledge and requirements as standardized databases
Identifying appropriate chemical identifiers (e.g. CAS RNs)
The project required a food scientist with a master’s degree in Food Sciences with a strong foundation in organic and inorganic chemistry, including chemical structures and families; strong food regulatory knowledge with good experience in working with food additives, flavorings, and food contact materials
Our Solution
IDS deployed a qualified Food Sciences Specialist as per the project requirements
Nature of Work:
Daily interactions with the client through WebEx conference calls, receipt of client work orders, and assessment of assigned tasks
Captured and restructured the data and generic work on the captured data using client editing tools to produce MS Access output format files for various countries
Captured data often consists of regulatory limits from different countries for food additives, food ingredients, food flavorings, metal contaminants, pesticide residues, food veterinary drug contaminants, microbiological contaminants, environmental contaminants, radioactive contaminants etc.
The regulatory data was captured in a format with field entries like additive/ingredient name, CAS number, application name, functional class name, maximum and minimum thresholds, notes, restrictions, and qualifiers from client-specified regulatory sources
Captured data was restructured according to client’s template, and proofing of the captured data was done before releasing it to the client global Food & Flavor regulatory compliance check tool
Another part of the workflow (generic work) comprises of capturing sub entries of various family or group names of ingredients and additives along with their source standard document numbers for different countries. This eventually helps a food manufacturer to observe complete specifics of a particular ingredient or additive family name and to adjudge suitability of their product for these different countries
Daily task tracking sheet was uploaded to client listing task-wise time
