Localizing Product Labels: Ensuring Accuracy and Legal Compliance

For each project, we consistently collaborate with the same linguists who specialize in the food industry. Based on the EU’s 14 key product labeling regulations, we have compiled a terminology database and a translation memory to provide automated support and verification during projects, ensuring accurate and consistent translations. By applying QA tools, we ensure the correct use of terminology, preservation of non-translatable product names, and filtering out formatting errors. A special segmentation rule created in our CAT tool guarantees that ingredients appear in the translation in the same order as in the source, as they must be listed in descending order of quantity. It also ensures that no ingredient is omitted from the list.

Our CAT software's QA tools also allow for easy automation of checks such as correct terminology usage, avoidance of prohibited terms, filtering out missing terms, formatting checks, and proper marking of allergens (bold, underlined, or supplementing the translation with the allergen if it does not contain it) without in-depth knowledge of the target language. Additionally, this tool ensures that non-translatable product names remain unchanged in the target languages while also checking for inconsistencies, character limits, spelling, and punctuation.

Following the translation, the completed label undergoes a layout check. During this step, we ensure that the character set is suitable, text placement is correct, accents have not shifted, uppercase and lowercase letters are used properly, and no changes were unintentionally introduced during formatting. We also transfer any newly introduced modifications in the source text to the target languages.