In the news concerning the food industry, there has recently appeared an eloquent article Changes in the market of suppliers of raw materials for food production, illustrating the threats that have been identified in the market of supply of raw materials to food producers. As it turned out in practice, the main problem of suppliers is the incorrect understanding of the EU Regulation 1169/2011, which causes misunderstandings with recipients, their customers. The article aroused interest and resonated widely in the industry, which resulted in an avalanche of questions and comments. That is why we decided to write a short guide for suppliers, which should be used to better serve customers and help production plants adapt to current legal standards related to the obligations resulting from the EU Regulation 1169/2011. However, most of the advice in our guide does not come from us, but rather suggestions submitted by technologists and owners of food companies, with whom we have contact because they use the Nutrition Calculator FOODCAL. These suggestions were created in the context of their problems with calculating nutritional values ​​and are really useful tips on how suppliers can help producers in this area, which of course will strengthen their position on the market. It must be added that, as is usually the case in business, first come, first served, because when all suppliers start doing this, the market balance will be equalized. On our part, we have supplemented these suggestions with advice on using our FOODCAL software as a platform for contact between supplier and recipient, which happens to serve both parties simultaneously.

Food Producers' Suggestions for Suppliers of Raw Materials and Additives for Production.
Supplier!
1. if you do not have nutritional values, GMOs and allergens listed in your raw material specifications, fill them in as soon as possible so that we can use these specifications to appropriately edit the information on the labels in accordance with EU Regulation 1169/2011

2. if you think that your product is so standard that its values ​​are widely known, you should also know that during the inspection we will not tell anyone that we produce from commonly known raw materials, we only have to support ourselves with documentation, so we need reliable and complete data provided in a credible form

3. if you think that printing specifications for each delivery is a troublesome situation, use the Internet, send the data of your raw materials to the FOODCAL Nutritional Value Calculator office and they will be added to the publicly available raw material catalog, where every customer will be able to access them at any time

3. if you think that sending updated specifications to all your customers is a troublesome situation, use the possibilities offered by FOODCAL and send the data of your raw materials to the calculator. They will be added to a publicly available catalog of raw materials, where every customer will be able to access them at any time

4. It will be optimal for us, producers, if when calculating nutritional values ​​using the calculator, we can also select from the catalog of raw materials those purchased from you, because then we can automatically add them to the recipes of our products

The above tips are the most frequently provided to us comments that food producers wanted to pass on to their suppliers through us. Apparently, the information provided to salespeople of these companies is usually ineffective, which is not hard to believe, so in the interests of prevention and early resolution of emerging problems, we try to engage in dialogue between the parties.

We will also add a few tips and tricks from ourselves:

- our program for calculating values ​​actually works in such a way that if raw materials are entered into the catalog, the calculator user does not waste time on adding the values ​​for individual raw materials themselves, but with one click they download them to their recipe, and with another click they calculate the entire value for their product, so calculating the recipe takes 1 minute

- it is certainly interesting for suppliers who are looking for new customers that the raw materials of individual suppliers are visible on separate lists marked with the company name, and all calculator users have access to the lists, so this is an additional promotion for each supplier and the possibility of offering new customers

- employees of the FOODCAL Nutritional Value Calculator help prepare appropriate and compliant documentation and make it available to customers, so you do not have to involve your employees, which will reduce your costs

- for better service, we are also able to provide additional services such as printing certificates and PDF specifications directly from the raw materials catalog, which can reduce customer service costs.

Finally, we would like to encourage you to contact us:
If you produce raw materials and additives for the food industry or represent a supplier of such raw materials, let us know - we will present your company with the details of adding your offer to the FOODCAL calculator's raw materials catalog. Write to us at: kontakt@nutrition-calculator.pl or call 730 111 365.

We hope that your doubts are dispelled. We invite you to use our software, and in case of further questions, we will be happy to help.

Editorial Team
Nutrition Calculator FOODCAL
https://pl.nutrition-calculator.com

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