Food and beverage
Foresight tracks the rules that reach your recipes and packaging, from contaminants to PFAS, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsSubstance risk heatmap
- Fiona MacLeod
- Ama Mensah
- Lena Fischer
| Substance |  EU |  GB |  US |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPA | |||
| PFAS | |||
| MOAH | |||
| Glycidyl esters | |||
| Erythrosine |
- 5Priority
- 4Action
- 3Monitor
- 1–2Clear
BPA European Union
Banned in food contact materials
- Lids
- First placed by 20 July 2026
- Filling
- 12 months after that date
BPA Great Britain
Ban confirmed; start date to follow
- Stage
- Ban confirmed 4 March 2026
- Covers
- BPA and its analogues in food contact
- SPS deal
- Would apply the EU’s rules
BPA United States
On California’s warning list
- Listed
- Since 11 May 2015
- Warning
- Unless exposure is shown to be safe
- FDA
- BPA coatings still allowed
PFAS European Union
Limits apply since 12 August 2026
- Limits
- 25 ppb per PFAS, 250 ppb in total
- All PFAS
- 50 ppm, polymeric PFAS included
PFAS Great Britain
Under review, nothing proposed
- Measure
- Defra’s PFAS Plan
- FSA
- Testing PFAS in food packaging
- UK REACH
- Considering further restrictions
PFAS United States
State bans in force since 2023
- Minnesota
- Any food package, since 2024
- California
- Paperboard packs, since 2023
- FDA
- PFAS grease-proofers withdrawn
MOAH European Union
Limits due from 1 January 2027
- Stage
- Voted 13 May; under scrutiny since July
- Oils
- 2.0 mg/kg in rapeseed and sunflower oil
- Meals
- Worked out from each ingredient’s limit
MOAH Great Britain
No GB limit; under study
- FSA
- Developing MOAH test methods
- SPS deal
- Would apply the EU’s rules
MOAH United States
No US limit on MOAH in food
- Checked
- FDA limits and its review list
- As of
- 15 October 2026
Glycidyl esters European Union
Limits apply since 19 August 2026
- Covers
- Compound food over 5% fat with added oil
- Limit
- 1,000 µg/kg fat
- 3-MCPD
- 1,250 or 2,500 µg/kg fat
Glycidyl esters Great Britain
Limit on the oils, not the meals
- Oils
- 1,000 µg/kg
- Meals
- No limit for compound food
- SPS deal
- Would apply the EU’s rules
Glycidyl esters United States
Glycidol is on California’s warning list
- Prop 65
- Glycidol listed as a carcinogen
- Esters
- Not listed themselves
- FDA
- No limit for any food
Erythrosine European Union
Allowed in candied cherries
- Allowed
- Up to 200 mg/kg
- Checked
- EU list of food additives
- As of
- 15 October 2026
Erythrosine Great Britain
Allowed in candied cherries
- Allowed
- Up to 200 mg/kg
- Checked
- The FSA’s register for GB
- As of
- 15 October 2026
Erythrosine United States
Food use ends 15 January 2027
- Stage
- Objections rejected; stay lifted 5 August
- California
- Banned from 1 January 2027
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to the kitchen
One rule at each step of a typical food and beverage organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
Since 7 March 2026, EU residue limits allow only traces of clothianidin and thiamethoxam in crops you buy, imports included.
Your sites
Since 2025, the EU F-gas Regulation has barred servicing your cold stores with virgin refrigerants of GWP 2,500 or more.
Your products
Since 9 October 2025, EU additive rules cap nitrites added to your cured meats at 80 mg/kg, down from 150.
Your markets
Desserts you ship from GB into the EU must not contain titanium dioxide (E171), which EU law banned in 2022.
In the kitchen
Your oven chips must carry cooking instructions that keep acrylamide low in customers’ kitchens, under the EU acrylamide regulation.
Projects for food and beverage
Each is scoped to your products, packaging and markets, and Foresight checks every result against its source.
Understand your exposure
All 7 projects- Substance risk heatmapWhich substances in your foods and packaging face the most regulatory pressure, market by market, scored on your own scale.
- Market entry requirementsThe rules on colours, additives and labels that a meal or sauce must meet before it sells in a new market.
- PFAS portfolio reviewWhich of your trays, films, sleeves and lids hold PFAS, under each definition where you sell.
- Substitution screeningAlternatives to BPA lid coatings and PFAS grease barriers, checked for their own hazards and restrictions.
Keep watch
All 3 projectsKeep documents current
All 4 projectsDescribe the work. Foresight runs it and checks it.
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 check each answer against its source. 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. Foresight checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready for Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, to send back. Foresight goes on monitoring the rules behind each answer.
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.
Foresight checks each answer against its source.
The work comes back ready to use, and Foresight keeps it current as the rules change.
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 food and drink teams ask
Does Foresight cover food contact packaging?
Yes. Foresight watches the rules on PFAS and bisphenols in each market for your trays, films and can coatings. A PFAS portfolio review finds which of your packs hold PFAS, and substitution screening checks alternatives to BPA lid coatings and PFAS grease barriers.
Does Foresight track additive and contaminant limits?
Yes. A substance risk heatmap scores each contaminant, additive and packaging substance in each of your markets, and links every score to the rule behind it. Foresight also scores new limits and decisions as they come, most important first, and follows new studies on substances such as mineral oils and bisphenols.
Can Foresight prepare our packaging EPR data?
Yes. Foresight prepares the data on your trays, films and sleeves for each country’s packaging EPR scheme. A PPWR compliance programme sets out what the EU packaging regulation asks of each pack you sell there.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the products it covers. Useful inputs include your recipes and ingredient specifications, your packaging specifications, the markets you sell in and the supplier declarations you already hold. You also set how the work is judged, such as your own scoring scale.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your products, packaging and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.
