How Genesis Foods Empowers Manufacturers with New Compliance Tools

In an industry where ingredient changes and product updates are constant, staying efficient and organized is critical. Trustwell’s Genesis Foods provides manufacturers with powerful tools to streamline recipe reformulation, ingredient tracking, and regulatory compliance, enabling your team to adapt quickly without sacrificing accuracy.

Navigating Mexico's Front-of-Package Labeling

Mexico’s Front-of-Package (FOP) labeling regulations are part of a global push for clearer food labeling and greater transparency. By 2025, Phase 3 of these regulations will require food manufacturers to display warning symbols on products exceeding set limits for calories, added sugars, fats, and sodium.

Genesis Foods makes this process much easier. It analyzes recipes and automatically generates the necessary FOP symbols, helping you to achieve compliance with Mexico’s front-of-package regulations.

How Genesis Foods Supports FOP Compliance

With the latest update, Genesis Foods now fully supports Phase 3 of Mexico’s FOP regulations. Our system analyzes the nutritional content of your recipes to determine if warning symbols are required based on thresholds for calories, sugars, fats, and sodium. Here’s how it works:

1. Select Ingredient Types: Easily categorize ingredients like fats, sodium, and sweeteners. Genesis will automatically evaluate the recipe based on these selections.
2. Automatic Symbols: If your recipe exceeds nutrient thresholds, Genesis generates the necessary warning symbols, which you can preview and download for front-of-package labeling.

For example, if your product contains more than 10% of total energy from added sugars or over 300 mg of sodium, Genesis will prompt you to apply the appropriate “EXCESO AZÚCARES” or “EXCESO SODIO” labels to maintain compliance with front-of-pack regulations.

Why This Matters for Your Brand

As consumers become more aware of nutritional content in foods they buy, transparent labeling becomes a competitive advantage, especially as the compliance deadline comes closer. Across the globe, we see evidence that front-of-package nutrition labeling signals to consumers that your brand prioritizes their health.

Using Genesis Foods’ intuitive interface, your compliance team can manage regulations without disrupting daily workflows, keeping your brand aligned with regulatory standards and consumer expectations.

Efficient Ingredient and Recipe Management

The food industry thrives on innovation, and Limited-Time Offers (LTOs) and seasonal products have become essential strategies for driving consumer interest and boosting sales. However, managing the ingredients and recipes for these time-sensitive offerings can add complexity, especially when they overlap with your core product lines.

Genesis Foods' new Archive/Unarchive feature is designed to simplify this process. By archiving ingredients and recipes from past LTOs or seasonal products, your team can keep the workspace focused on current projects while retaining full access to archived data for future use.

Simplify Your Team's Workflows

When it’s time to revive a seasonal favorite or create a new LTO, archived ingredients and formulations are just a click away—ready to be retrieved without disrupting your regular workflow. As consumer preferences shift seasonally and brands experiment with new flavors or limited editions, the ability to efficiently manage both active and inactive product data ensures your team can pivot quickly.

Streamline Reformulation with Advanced Search

Recipe adjustments are a constant in food manufacturing, whether driven by regulatory updates, ingredient changes, or evolving consumer tastes. Genesis Foods’ Search Where Used feature within the Advanced Search functionality brings clarity to these updates by showing exactly where an ingredient is used across your entire product line. This ensures that reformulations happen efficiently, without the risk of overlooking any recipes.

Key Use Cases:

1. Efficient Reformulation: When an ingredient needs to be updated—due to cost shifts, new supplier information, or regulatory compliance—Search Where Used quickly highlights all the recipes that need attention. This allows your team to apply changes consistently, avoiding the time-consuming task of searching manually.

2. Nutritional Adjustments: As trends shift toward healthier products, such as those with reduced sugar or sodium, Genesis Foods allows you to easily identify which recipes rely on these ingredients. This makes it easier to adjust formulations and meet consumer demand while keeping your product line consistent.

3. Managing Seasonal and LTO Products: For limited-time and seasonal products, Search Where Used ensures that you can efficiently track specific ingredients across recipes. When it’s time to bring a product back, you can swiftly retrieve and update the necessary recipes, ensuring quality and compliance remain intact.

Be Confident in Your Recipe Changes

For formulators, managing ingredient changes can be a daunting task, especially when a single change impacts multiple products. With Genesis Foods’ Search Where Used feature within the Advanced Search,  you can quickly identify every recipe using a specific ingredient, making it easier to implement changes across your entire portfolio. This gives you the confidence that no recipe will be missed, and every update is applied consistently—helping you stay efficient and avoid costly errors during reformulation.

Driving Innovation in Recipe Management and Compliance

At Trustwell, our goal is to provide food manufacturers with the tools they need to stay efficient and compliant, even in the face of constant change. The latest updates to Genesis Foods streamline ingredient management and simplify recipe reformulation, ensuring that your team can quickly adjust to new product needs or regulatory requirements.

By making it easier to manage ingredient updates and ensure consistency across your recipes, Genesis Foods helps your business maintain efficiency and uphold consumer trust—no matter how complex the task at hand.

Stay Informed

To learn more about these new features, explore our Release Notes or contact us at release@trustwell.com for further details. Stay connected with us on social media for the latest insights from industry leaders.