Fiona Waring is a Registered Nutritionist qualified to MSc level. Fiona Waring’s Nutrition Consultancy covers a wide section of the health and food industry. Having provided Nutrition, Medical and Regulatory Support to a senior level with extensive experience in the following areas:
- Product areas: Infant formula, FSMP’s, medical devices, baby foods, THR, food supplements, organic cosmetics, soups, sauces, stocks, gravies, porridge, sweet & savoury bakery products.
- Customer technical department interaction: Danone, Nestle Nutrition, Bountiful Company, Nestle Health Science, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Fuel, M&S, Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrison’s, ASDA, Co-op, Fortnum & Mason, Pret A Manger and Paxton & Whitfield.
- People management: Ability to prioritise business needs and plan team’s capacity, enable people’s development, mentoring and coaching direct reports and wider team.
- Innovation experience: worked on multiple critical paths to customer requirements. Horizon scanning, critical path compliance – Provided regulatory direction in the NPD process, ensuring market compliance for products developed by the Global Innovation department, leading to successful product launches in the UK, EU & Global markets.
- Evidenced based approach to public health research and practice – independent analytical and appraisal skills that enable independent scientific judgements on epidemiological evidence summarised in papers and published reports.
- Label compliance: Infant Nutrition (Infant formula, Follow On, Food for Special Medical Purposes (FSMPs), Medical Devices, Baby Foods), Food and Food supplement label proof checks enabling optimisation of label changes to meet current legislation and to secure compliance for health claims on packaging. Covering UK, Europe, US, LATAM, MEA, E. Eu and Japanese markets.
- Trade Associations Member: BSNA (Infant Nutrition and Medical Working Group) DII, HFMA.
- ACBS submissions: Paediatric and adult foods for special medical purposes (FSMP).
- Horizon Scanning: Translation of regulations and legislative activity into creative business solutions that result in increased brand value or brand protection.
- Leadership and training: compilation of in-house training material and delivery for existing products, new product launches, current food safety guidance, regulatory restrictions, and approval process.
- Allergen information for customers: specifications, raw material specification reviews against company policy, risk assessments.
- Technical interactions: Retail Technologists, Directors, Department Managers, Brand, Production Staff, NPD, Sales Account Managers, Packaging Technologists, Artwork House, Printers.
- Registered Nutritionist Association of Nutrition
Fiona has studied to MSc level in Public Health Nutrition to include modules on medical statistics and epidemiology thus providing a unique service to companies who require independent analytical and appraisal skills of papers, published reports or media press releases. Whilst also using these skills to provide support material for new products