The food label compliance checklist

Verify your labels are retail-ready in 15 minutes

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If your product went into a retailer review tomorrow…
would your label survive?

 

Most food brands don’t lose sleep over flavour, packaging design, or marketing.

They lose sleep over this:

A retailer compliance team flagging their label. A distributor questioning a health claim. An audit exposing something they missed. A mandatory reprint costing thousands. Or worse - a complaint that escalates to the ACCC

You’ve already invested in formulation, branding, packaging, stock.

The last thing you need is a preventable compliance issue slowing distribution or killing momentum.

But here’s the problem:

Food labelling advice is often vague. Consultants get brought in after the mistake. And the Food Standards Code isn’t written for founders.

So brands either avoid claims entirely (and weaken their positioning), or take risks without fully understanding them.

Neither is strategic.

This free checklist shows you where brands actually get caught.

Inside, you’ll discover:

  • The six most common labelling and health claim mistakes costing Australian food brands time and money

  • The areas retailers and auditors scrutinise first

  • How to pressure-test your ingredients, claims, imagery, naming and NIP before you print

  • What must be fixed immediately vs what’s lower risk

  • How to move from “I think we’re fine” to defensible confidence

This isn't theory. It's built from real compliance reviews, real label audits and real commercial consequences. Because compliant labels don't just protect you.

They protect your growth.

Get my compliance checklist!

And who am I?

I’m Dr Courtney Stewart (RNutr, PhD), the founder of NPR Consulting and a nutrition researcher specialising in food labelling, claims, and regulatory strategy. I work with organisations ranging from early-stage food brands to global companies and industry bodies including:

And I can't wait to help you too!

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Before your next print run. Before your next retailer pitch. Before an audit finds it for you.