Plant-Based and Alternative Protein Editing and Proofreading Services

A novel ingredient dossier runs to two thousand pages and is rejected on the process description. Not because the process is unsafe, but because the assessor could not establish from the document what the organism was, what it was fed, what came out of the fermenter, and what the difference was between the material tested for safety and the material intended for sale. Nine months are lost to a writing problem.

We edit what alternative protein companies produce — novel food and ingredient dossiers, production process descriptions and specifications, safety and compositional data summaries, allergenicity and nutritional assessments, technical documentation for customers and co-manufacturers, labelling and naming material within the constraints that apply, investor and partnership documents, and consumer-facing explanations of an unfamiliar product. Our editors work on documents that have to explain something the reader has not seen before.

The production process description in a novel food dossier is the section everything else depends on, and its failure is a narrative that never fixes the identity of the material. An assessor cannot evaluate the safety of something whose definition changes between chapters. We work through these so the production organism or source material is identified to the level the assessment requires — strain with its deposit, cultivar, or cell line with its provenance and history — since a genus and species will not do; so every input to the process is listed with its specification, including processing aids and media components that do not appear in the final product, because absence has to be demonstrated rather than assumed; so the process is described as unit operations with the parameters that define them and the ranges within which the material stays the same, given that a dossier written around one production run cannot support commercial variation; so the material used in each safety study is tied to a batch and that batch's place in the process is stated, as this is the correspondence assessors test hardest; so the compositional specification distinguishes the target component from everything else present, with the analytical methods; so any difference between pilot and commercial scale is addressed rather than hoped over; and so the same terms are used for the same thing throughout the document. Dossiers written this way get assessed rather than returned.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including dossiers, process information, unpublished data and commercial agreements. We are editors rather than food scientists, toxicologists or regulatory advisers, and we offer no view on safety, novel food status or compliance. What we can do is keep the material's identity fixed across two thousand pages.