FINNE nutrition and food regulatory consultancy

Navigating the facts around nutrition, sustainable diets and regulation within a commercial environment can seem complicated. Led by an accredited nutrition and regulatory industry expert with over 25 years experience, FINNE NRC work in a flexible, timely and forward-thinking way with food companies on short or long term projects or to fill resource gaps in teams. Our services range from nutrition communication, health claims support and claim substantiation through to scientific reviews and nutrition trial design, food label checks, nutritional analysis, new product development and training.

Our clients include multinational and local food and food supplement companies, trade organisations and marketing and public relations agencies.

Nutrition Consultancy

FINNE nutrition and regulatory consultancy has extensive experience in the field of nutrition and only uses accredited nutritionists or dietitians for client work.

Food Regulation

FINNE consultancy provides a range of regulatory services to clients to cover European Union and UK markets. We work with local regulatory……….

Training & Corporate Talks

Upskill your staff with our bespoke training presentations and workshops or add value to your relationship with your customers with tailored B2B presentations delivered by us

About Us

FINNE Nutrition + Regulatory services was established by Lead consultant Dr. Yvonne Finnegan in 2012. She has a BSc. (Hons) in Nutrition & Dietetics and a PhD and is a CORU registered Dietitian. Yvonne has been working in the food industry as a nutritionist and regulatory manager for the past 25 years and has a wide breadth of experience having worked with local and international food companies (Danone, Glanbia, Tate &Lyle (Ingredients), CJ Cheilejedang, Valeofoods, Lucozade Ribena Suntory, Herbalife, GSK, Almarai (Saudi Arabia), as well as SME’s and start-ups. 

25+

Years Experience

Who we have worked with

What they say about us

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It was my pleasure to work with Dr. Yvonne on various nutrition projects on policies and nutrient profilling. Her insights and scientific reports helped me achieve my project goals. I recommend her as nutrition consultant who can guide you insightfully to your goals

Suzanne Alodaib
Corporate Nutrition Manager Almarai
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“Myself and my team have been working with Yvonne on several projects over the last 10 months. Yvonne’s experience is unquestionable and her ability to make very complex areas of nutrition easy to understand is superb. Yvonne also see’s the commercial needs of the business and balances this well with the regulatory space.

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Senior Marketing Manager Global FMCG
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Yvonne provided us with nutrition and regulatory services during a challenging year. Her experience and skills meant that the National Dairy Council was able to maintain its momentum and high output of credible scientific advice and communications to both consumers and healthcare professionals. She integrated very well into our current practices and team and also brought a valuable external perspective on our work in the area of Sustainable Diets.

Zoe Kavanagh
CEO National Dairy Council
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Yvonne stepped in during a busy period to help us to oversee and manage a large nutrition research trial portfolio. She helped develop project proposals and detailed protocols with our various research organisations to tight deadlines, detailing decisions and summarising known evidence to date. Her background in this area within the food industry is invaluable and enables her to hit the ground running.

Kavita Karnik
Global Head, Nutrition and Regulatory Affairs at Tate & Lyle
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Yvonne provided regulatory services to us covering both Specialised Nutrition Paediatric Consumer and Dairy products in Ireland. She understood our requirements immediately and was able to deliver an excellent service to our Marketing teams, as well as flawlessly interacting with our regulatory team in the UK and external stakeholders in a virtual context. Yvonne is a strong collaborator, generous in sharing her experience with junior members, super respected as a regulatory professional and delivers against SLAs on time and in full

Bettina Abruzzese
Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager FMCG
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Yvonne is a highly skilled and experienced nutritionist in the food industry….she was highly skilled in working with commercial colleagues to identify market requirements and translate complex science to enable the business to understand potential claims areas, ensuring that the product claims developed were supported by sound science, met regulatory restrictions within the markets of sale and were compelling for the consumer.

Sally-Ann Krzyzaniak
Regulatory Affairs specialist in the Food Industry

Supporting your business with evidence-based nutrition advice and regulatory expertise is our mission