You will practice different approaches to find the answers in SGS Digicomply, e.g. regulatory search, substance search, topic search and work with Food Regulatory Guides.
Exercise no. 1: Regulatory geographical coverage
In this exercise you can test whether the following countries: Somalia and Namibia are currently covered as a market in the system.
Assignment: A) Regulatory search
Open Digicomply, and go to Search -> Regulations and start typing "Somalia" to determine if it is a covered market in the system.
As a second example do the same for the country "Namibia".
Answers to this EXERCISE no. 1
Assignment: B) Understanding Regulatory Guides
Explore the map to see the regulatory coverage of interest inside available guides
through the EXPLORE OPTION / FOOD GUIDES MAP
Exercise no. 2: Substances search (Spirulina example)
In this exercise you will learn how to search by a specific ingredient.
Assignment: For this exercise, take an example of a product, SPIRULINA, and setup a data feed, so you receive a weekly notification for future news.
- Create search for a product "SPIRULINA".
- Monitor the discussion happening in a few countries in South America (Brazil, Argentina and Chile) to see if there is active news developments (not the regulations) in these markets
- To do so, create and then save a search that monitors all post types excluding ‘Regulation’. Setup the appropriate notification preference
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