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Advisory support for food and drink businesses
Sources of advice for businesses in the Northern Ireland food and drink industry.
Key things to agree with your designer
What are the main things you should discuss with your designer, including objectives, budget, timescales and intellectual property rights
Create an effective design team
Find out how to form a good design team for your business’ project and what design team roles you may need to consider
How novel foods are assessed
What the compulsory pre-market safety assessment for novel foods covers and how to get authorisation for novel food.
Manage your design project effectively
Understand how to efficiently manage and review your design project during different stages of the design process
Reasons to hire a professional designer
Find out how the right designer or design agency can help you improve your product, packaging, brand and sales
Industry 4.0 challenges and risks
Find out about the risks of Industry 4.0 for your business, and possible limitations of these new digital industrial technologies
Write an effective design brief
How to write an effective design brief that will help your designer understand your design problem and deliver the right solution
Pesticides and food safety
Introduction to how pesticides are regulated and pesticide residue levels are monitored in food.
What are novel foods?
Overview of novel foods and technologies, why they're developed, and the regulations that control their use.
Nanotechnology in food
An explanation of nanotechnology, and how it's regulated when used in the production of food and food products.
Regulation of novel foods
Overview of the foods, ingredients and food processes covered by the Novel Foods Regulation, and what may be exempt from the regulation.
Cloning and novel foods
Food produced from cloned animals is considered novel and requires pre-market approval.
Fertility treatment and the workplace
How employers can support employees undergoing fertility treatment.
Sex, maternity and pregnancy discrimination
The types of sex discrimination and the rights of employees claiming to have suffered unfair treatment.
Innovate UK Business Growth
Innovate UK Business Growth offers a range of services to help ambitious, innovative SMEs grow and scale.
Growing our food business by supplying major retail chains - Karri Kitchen
Shera McAloran, Director of Karri Kitchen, shares insights into the challenges and rewards of becoming a supermarket supplier.
Using work trials to recruit people with disabilities - JP Corry
How JP Corry's Dromore branch has adapted its recruitment processes to take on a person with a disability.
Promoting gender equality - Terex (video)
Sharon Martin, IT Service Delivery Manager at Terex, explains how promoting gender equality has benefited their business.
Equality and contracting with the public sector
If you want to supply goods or services to the public sector, you may need to show how you promote equality and diversity.