Ingredient Regulatory Screening FDA Approved Doesn't Mean Global Approved

Reglyr checks ingredients against FDA GRAS lists, EU Novel Foods Regulation (EC 2015/2283), EU permitted additives, FSANZ (Food Standards Australia New Zealand), SFA (Singapore Food Agency) requirements, and other market-specific frameworks depending on your selected target markets. Each framework has its own authorization structure — GRAS self-affirmation vs. formal EU authorization, for example — and Reglyr maps ingredients against the rules that apply in each specific market, not a generic global list.

Manual ingredient screening means opening multiple regulatory databases — FDA's SCOGS, the EU's Union List of authorized Novel Foods, market-specific additive registers — and cross-referencing each ingredient individually. For a formula with dozens of ingredients across five or more markets, this is weeks of work with significant risk of missing interactions between ingredient category, use level, and market-specific conditions. Reglyr evaluates all ingredients against all applicable frameworks simultaneously and structures the output as explicit GO/FIX/REVIEW verdicts per ingredient per market, rather than raw regulatory text you have to interpret yourself.

Yes. This is one of the most common failure modes Reglyr is designed to catch. An ingredient with FDA GRAS status has no automatic equivalence under EU law. If that ingredient falls under the EU Novel Foods Regulation (EC 2015/2283), it requires a separate EU authorization before it can be placed on the European market. Reglyr explicitly flags this gap — showing that an ingredient is permitted in the US but requires authorization or is restricted in the EU — so your team knows exactly what regulatory actions are needed before committing to a European launch.

Reglyr screens beyond simple permitted/banned status. Many additives are permitted in a market but only up to a specified maximum use level, within a specific food category, or under defined conditions of use. Where relevant, the screening surfaces the specific conditions under which an ingredient is authorized and flags where your formulation may not meet those conditions — for example, an additive permitted at 200 mg/kg in a food category but used at a higher level in your formula.

Yes. Reglyr's Food and CPG compliance product covers both conventional food and supplement SKUs. Supplement ingredients are subject to distinct regulatory frameworks in many markets — for example, the EU's rules on botanicals differ from FDA's structure/function claim framework for dietary supplements. When you specify your product category during upload, Reglyr applies the regulatory frameworks appropriate to that category and market combination, including supplement-specific authorized ingredient lists where they exist.