CLEAR CHECK® Training

Learn about UK food supplement regulations with CLEAR CHECK® Pet Supplements training & Food Supplements Labelling training.

Bring your Pet Supplements, Pet Food, or Animal Feed to the UK and EU Markets with confidence.

CLEAR CHECK® offers two crucial online courses that serve as a comprehensive introduction to essential regulatory requirements:

  • Pet Supplement Label Compliance Training: Ensure your packaging is 100% compliant with EU/UK labelling laws.
  • Introduction to Export & Import Requirements for Pet Supplements: Learn the logistics and customs processes required for seamless border crossing.

Gain the expertise you need for successful market entry.

Pet food is highly regulated to guarantee hygiene, safety and quality standards. We now offer Pet Supplements and Animal Feed regulatory support, and label and marketing copy review services within the CLEAR CHECK portfolio of services. Legislation applies from primary production to placing animal supplements and feed on the market.

The pet supplement market is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by a surge in pet health awareness and rapid product innovation. We can help you be 100% compliant and in the highly regulated UK and EU markets. 

Please send your regulatory queries and copy review requests to clearcheck@hfma.co.uk

Pet Supplement Label Compliance Training

If you work in the pet supplement industry, understanding label compliance is crucial. This 4-hour training session will guide you through the essentials of ingredient categorisation and label requirements, helping you ensure compliance and avoid costly mistakes.

Training Details 

  • Duration: 4 hours
  • While a minimum course fee applies, we’re equipped to deliver this training for individual delegates or accommodate groups of any size. For a tailored quotation that aligns with your specific requirements, please contact us
  • Includes: Session recording, slides, & Certificate of Attendance (supports self-directed CPD log)

Ingredient Categorisation & Regulations

☑️ The difference between additives and feed materials (GB & EU requirements)
☑️ How to correctly categorise ingredients for pet supplement labels (GB & EU requirements)
☑️ Navigating the Feed Materials Catalogue vs. Feed Materials Register

Label Compliance

☑️Key principles for pet supplement labelling
☑️Identifying non-compliances
☑️Understanding of the feed materials resources
☑️Best practices for compliance & accuracy

Pricing & Booking:  

Member Company Rate

For our valued member companies, the training has a minimum charge of £450.00 plus VAT. This covers up to four delegates. If you have more than four delegates, an additional £95.00 plus VAT per person will be charged.

Non-Member Company Rate

For non-member companies, the training is charged at £180.00 plus VAT per delegate, with a minimum charge of £850.00 plus VAT. This minimum charge covers up to four delegates.

Introduction to the export and import requirements for Pet Supplements Training

Looking at expanding your pet supplement range or feed? Securing market access for UK pet food supplements, Pet food and Animal Feed in the EU is complex. On top of our Pet Supplement Label Compliance Training, CLEAR CHECK® is now offering a 2.5-hour training session which will guide you on all export and import requirements for Pet supplements, Pet food or Animal Feed. This course will cover compliance with both UK and EU Regulations, guiding your organisation through these challenging steps.
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Training Details 

  • Duration: 2.5 hours
  • While a minimum course fee applies, we’re equipped to deliver this training for individual delegates or accommodate groups of any size. For a tailored quotation that aligns with your specific requirements, please contact us
  • Includes: Session recording, slides, & Certificate of Attendance (supports self-directed CPD log)

What You’ll Learn:
☑️How to export pet food supplements from the UK to the EU
☑️ The Windsor Framework: Establishing reliable export/import routes.
☑️EUDR Compliance (EU Deforestation Regulations)
☑️Animal By-Products (ABPs) Protocols
☑️UK government’s post-Brexit border control framework
☑️Best practices for compliance

Member Company Rate

For our valued member companies, the training has a minimum charge of £450.00 plus VAT. This covers up to four delegates. If you have more than four delegates, an additional £95.00 plus VAT per person will be charged.

Non-Member Company Rate

For non-member companies, the training is charged at £180.00 plus VAT per delegate, with a minimum charge of £850.00 plus VAT. This minimum charge covers up to four delegates.

Learn about Food Supplement Regulations and to Identify Non-Compliances on Labels.

CLEAR CHECK® offers this fundamental Food Supplement Labelling Training which will equip the delegate with the following:

  • the skills to review food supplement labels against the relevant regulations and best practice guidance,
  • to understand and apply the relevant information from the necessary databases,
  • to identify non-compliances, resolve issues in a complaint manner and create compliant food supplement labels.

Ensure your food labelling meets UK regulations.

Food Supplement Labelling Training

The HFMA CLEAR CHECK® Label Compliance Training will provide an easy-to-understand interpretation of the regulations that oversee the labelling of food supplements. Each section will explain the requirements and demonstrate with examples to reinforce understanding. The training session will equip the delegates with the skills to create food supplement labels and identify non-compliances.
  • Who is the training for

This training is suitable for those who are new to or have limited experience in food supplement regulatory affairs.  Equally, the training serves as a refresher for those with some regulatory experience or who have had time away from the industry.

Roles: Regulatory, Marketing and Technical

  • What is covered

The HFMA CLEAR CHECK® Label Compliance Training will provide an easy-to-understand interpretation of the regulations that oversee the labelling of food supplements.  Each section will explain the requirements and demonstrate with examples to reinforce understanding.  The training session will equip the delegates with the skills to create food supplement labels and identify non-compliances.  

The session is designed to work through a label stage by stage.  Learning is assisted with detailed examples to demonstrate the learning objective.  The session will finish with an informal question-and-answer session.

The HFMA CLEAR CHECK® Label Compliance Training consists of the following sections:

  • Regulations, Enforcement Agency Guidance and Best Practice Standards
  • Food Business Operator responsibilities
  • Definition of a food supplement
  • Labelling Overview
  • Each mandatory particular in detail:
  • Name, Description and Quantity
  • Ingredients
  • Minimum Durability
  • Food Business Operator Details
  • Country of Origin Declaration
  • Usage
  • Nutrition Declaration
  • Warnings
  • Presentation

Pricing & Booking:  

Please email clearcheck@hfma.co.uk to reserve the session. Please notify us of the number of delegates, their full names and email addresses.  The session is open to members and non-members. However, HFMA members receive preferential rates, which will be confirmed when the training requirements are discussed.

Primary Authority Partnership

Surrey and Buckinghamshire Trading Standards have assessed HFMA CLEAR CHECK® service for its food standards support and concluded that “The quality level has been independently reviewed and in our opinion is likely to provide users of those services with a defence of ‘having taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence’. Please contact HFMA CLEAR CHECK® for further details.

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HFMA has partnered with Vale of Glamorgan Council Trading Standards to support our members based in Wales. For more details, please contact HFMA CLEAR CHECK.  

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