Ciba® Expert Services - Providing Solutions and Consultancy to the Food Industry

Expert Services delivers a diverse range of technical and consultancy solutions for the food industry. We have a global network of experts that helps customers in highly regulated industries to achieve compliance, efficiency and sustainable business success.

Expert Service member companies include CANTOX Health Sciences International, Pira International and Intertech Corporation.

Whether you intend to market a food ingredient, a nutritional supplement, a natural health product or a food derived from biotechnology, each presents business opportunities and challenges. Our expertise can help navigate the scientific and regulatory requirements these products must meet in order to be marketed. We provide the most expedient and cost-effective route to satisfy worldwide scientific and regulatory approval requirements.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

When clients invest money in the development of a new product, we can help protect your investment by:

• Providing global regulatory strategic planning and assessments
• Preparing technical submissions
• Guiding products through pre-market approval and commercialisation processes
• Conducting product safety evaluations (e.g. toxicology, allergenicity, contaminant exposure)
• Compiling nutritional and dietary intake assessments of food components
• Substantiating health-related claims for foods / food components and supplements
• Designing, placing and monitoring safety, nutritional and efficacy studies
• Packaging design

Today, a global perspective is essential to gain approval in multiple markets. Our professionals have regulatory experience in over 100 countries. Top international food and supplements companies and ingredient manufacturers come back to us time after time because we help move their businesses ahead successfully.

ANALYTICS

Our analytical speciality is non-routine problem solving by a combination of highly skilled, experienced and motivated staff and extensive state-of-the-art instrumentation including spectroscopic investigations and demanding analytical separations.

• Method development
• Structure elucidation
• Identification and quantification of transformation or degradation of products
• Measurement of extractable and leachables from food contact packaging
• Characterisation of complex formulations
• Failure analysis

PROCESS SAFETY AND POWDER HANDLING

From our extensive practical experience of testing and handling powders, we offer testing and consultancy in process and thermal safety, electrostatics and dust explosion hazards, process hazards / risk assessment and EHS management systems and operational guidelines.

PRODUCT-SPECIFIC SERVICES

Our range of product-specific services includes:

• Food additives and ingredients, including Generally Recognised As Safe (GRAS) substances
• Natural Health Products (NHP) and supplements
• Flavours and colours
• Foods derived from biotechnology
• Medical foods
• Food contact substances
• Feed additives and pet foods

Our Knowledge - Your Advantage

Contact Expert Services and see how we can address your specific needs.

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