Regulatory Scientist

The Regulatory Scientist at Novus Foods will play a key role in ensuring that our food products are compliant with all applicable regulatory requirements in the U.S. and international markets. This position partners closely with cross‑functional teams — including R&D, Quality Assurance, Operations, Marketing, and Legal — to support product development, labeling, claims substantiation, and regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

The Regulatory Scientist serves as the internal expert on food regulations and acts as a liaison with regulatory agencies and external stakeholders to facilitate approvals and maintain compliance.

• Acquire ingredient documents from suppliers and update Esha Genesis and our internal systems.
• Work in close cooperation with R&D, QA, Marketing, Sales, External Suppliers, and Purchasing via e‑mail and phone to support various regulatory initiatives.
• Create new and update current nutrition facts and ingredient statements based on R&D formulas using Esha Genesis.
• Review labels based on FDA CFR requirements, 3rd party certification requirements and our internal requirements.
• Work with multiple customer web platforms to input new product information gathered from R&D, QA, Marketing, and Sales while utilizing acquired knowledge of our products, procedures, policies, and plant locations.
• Stay up to date on regulations and marketplace trends.

• Experience with Esha Genesis
• Experience working for a food manufacturing company
• Knowledge of FDA CFR labeling requirements, experience in regulatory is preferred
• Detail oriented, meticulous, organized
• Ability to multi‑task and prioritize tasks
• Excel, Word, Outlook knowledge, computer savvy, ability to learn navigating multiple web platforms to input and retrieve information
• Detailed record keeping of updating ingredient documents to update Genesis and our storage system
• Ability to request information internally and to outside organizations and review documentation