Flavours, fragrances and ingredients
Foresight tracks the rules and IFRA Standards that reach your fragrance and flavour compounds, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsRegulatory horizon scanning
- Sofia Marchetti
- Hugo Lemaire
- Léa Martin
| Alert | Where | Relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Reaches the sensitisers in your fragrance palette | Global | Priority |
| Your compounds’ use levels in cosmetics need rechecking |  EU | Priority |
| Your customers’ Canadian labels need your allergen data |  Canada | Relevant |
| Covers the smoke flavours in your meat seasonings | EU | Relevant |
| Covers the musk in your detergent fragrances |  US | Relevant |
IFRA 52nd Amendment consultation ends
Relevance: PriorityNotification expected in January 2027
- New
- 48 Standards on skin sensitisation
- Limit
- Furocoumarins at 1 ppm for sun exposure
- Applies
- 11 months after notification, for new creations
Benzyl salicylate and citral capped
Relevance: PriorityLimits apply from 1 January 2027
- Fragrances
- Benzyl salicylate 4%, citral 0.6%
- Shower gel
- Benzyl salicylate 1.3%
- Old stock
- Off the market from 1 July 2028
Canada fragrance allergen disclosure
Relevance: RelevantExisting products due by August 2028
- List 1
- 24 allergens, on new and existing cosmetics
- List 2
- The expanded list, on new cosmetics
- Disclose
- Above 0.01% rinse-off, 0.001% leave-on
EU smoke flavourings withdrawn
Relevance: RelevantLast uses end 1 July 2029
- Deleted
- SF-001 to SF-010, from the Union list
- Most foods
- Last placed on the market 1 July 2026
- Until 2029
- Cheese, meat, processed fish and fish roe
HHCB draft risk evaluation
Relevance: RelevantDraft finds no unreasonable risk
- Stage
- Draft, comments closed 15 June
- Uses
- Musk in detergents, cleaners and air fresheners
- Next
- A final risk evaluation, after peer review
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to brand owners
One rule at each step of a typical flavour and fragrance organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
From February 2027, the EU classes methyl heptine carbonate you buy as a strong skin sensitiser, so labels change.
Your sites
Diacetyl, the butter flavouring used at your plants, has an EU indicative limit of 0.02 ppm in workplace air.
Your products
From October 2029, the EU microplastics ban covers fragrance capsules you sell, unless tests show they break down or dissolve.
Your markets
Anyone who imported over 100 kg of vetiver oil into Canada in 2025 must report under CEPA by March 2027.
Brand owners
From September 2029, brand owners must name any of over 100 fragrance allergens above 0.01% on EU detergent labels.
Projects for flavours, fragrances and ingredients
Each is scoped to your compounds, materials and markets, and your expert approves the result.
Understand your exposure
All 7 projectsMeet an obligation
All 9 projectsKeep documents current
All 4 projectsProtect your people
All 2 projectsDescribe the work. Approve what comes back.
Every project runs the same way, whatever the regulation. Here Foresight answers a customer’s substance questionnaire from your own records, and asks your suppliers for the rest.
Illustration of one project. The request reads: Answer this customer’s substance questionnaire from our records, and ask suppliers for what’s missing. Foresight reads the customer’s 86 questions and replies: I’ll answer what I can from your formulations, ask suppliers for the rest, and send you the answers to approve. It plans the work: Read the questionnaire, Match each question to your records, Ask suppliers for the rest, Draft each answer with its source. Your records answer 79 of 86 questions. Foresight asks 3 suppliers for the other 7. Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added, and approves the completed questionnaire. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready to send back.
Say what you need in plain words, and share what you already have.
Foresight sets the scope, plans the work and drafts each deliverable with the sources it rests on.
The person you name reviews each deliverable against its sources. Nothing is final until they sign it off.
Approved work comes back ready to use.
Your data, kept secure
Your data is kept in your organisation’s own workspace, separate from every other customer’s. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, including nightly backups, and is not shared with model providers for training. Foresight runs regular penetration tests.
How Foresight protects your data
What ingredient houses ask
Does Foresight track IFRA Standards?
Yes. A portfolio impact assessment shows which of your fragrance and flavour compounds a new IFRA Standard, restriction or classification reaches. Foresight also tracks open consultations on fragrance and flavour materials, with the date each one closes.
Can Foresight answer brand owners’ questionnaires?
Yes. Foresight drafts allergen declarations and answers to brand owners’ questionnaires from your formulas and supplier data, and your expert approves them.
Does Foresight classify our compounds?
Yes. Foresight classifies your fragrance compounds as CLP mixtures, sets out the label elements that follow, and updates their safety data sheets when a material’s classification changes.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the compounds it covers. Useful inputs include your formulas or the materials in them, your IFRA certificates, allergen declarations and safety data sheets, the markets your customers sell into and the questionnaires they send. You also name the people who approve each deliverable.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your compounds, materials and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.
