BIA Innovator Campus – One-to-One Labelling Compliance

Start date: 28 February 2026

Duration: 7 Hours*

Location: Online

Programme overview

*PLEASE NOTE: This is in fact a fully flexible, online workshop, with no specific start date, despite the listing here showing 28th February 2026 (that is merely a guideline date). Those interested should proceed, and choose their own start date at their own convenience.

Date: This course has a Flexibe Start date
Location: Online

One-to-One Labelling Compliance

One-to-one sessions with a Food Technologist spread out over a 7-hour period to target and document the specific ins and outs of the complex EU and National legislation that relates to labelling specific food products.

Who is this workshop designed for?
Aimed at individual food business operators who are labelling food products for the first time or those who have been audited by the regulatory authority (e.g Environmental Health Officer) and found to have non-conformances.

What will I learn?
Through presentation and interactive discussions with a Food Technologist, the client will learn about the regulatory requirements for food businesses when developing a label for their product, and how best to avoid having products recalled by the regulatory authority. Learn about requirements regarding:
• Use by versus best before dates and shelf-life**
• Nutritional declaration
• Health claims
• Storage/use instructions
• How to list and quid ingredients
• Minimum font size
• How to state allergens, and much more
** *Shelf-life is a mandatory requirement of labelling. Food business operators will learn about the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect shelf-life and will learn how to approach getting their specific food product tested by a laboratory, advise on how to interpret results. Advice on whether they should label their product with “Use by” or “Best Before” will be determined.

Receive a personalised overview of mandatory labelling requirements as per EU and national legislation and review of your businesses food products label for compliance. This will be carried out over a series of in person or online meetings. A document summarising the requirements and outcome of label review will be presented to the client at the end of the session.

Fees and Funding
The fee for this workshop is €600 per participant, and €240 for those eligible for funding from Taste 4 Success Skillnet. This discounted price for the programme is supported by Taste 4 Success Skillnet and is available to all eligible applicants.

Eligibility Criteria
• Participating businesses must be from private enterprise based in the Republic of Ireland
• Start up/artisan/sole traders are eligible if based and operating in the Republic of Ireland
• Taste 4 Success Skillnet can only fund a Member Company. Member Company means an eligible/approved artisan, micro, SME, sole trader, indigenous, multinational or other eligible company registered and operating in the Republic of Ireland
• Employees of member companies attending the programme(s) must be resident/living in the Republic of Ireland and be employed by a Member Company
• As a government-funded training network, we can only support those meeting the above criteria.