Uncountable Launches Regulatory Management Capability, Moving Ingredient Checks Into the Formulation Workflow

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SAN FRANCISCO – SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 – Uncountable, the AI platform for end-to-end product development, has launched Regulatory Management, a new regulatory compliance capability for formulation teams across food and beverage, cosmetics, specialty chemicals, and advanced materials industries.
Regulatory Management checks recipes against ingredient regulations within the product development platform, rather than in a separate system after formulation work is complete. Every recipe ingredient shows a pass or fail for each intended market, alerting formulators to potential compliance problems early in the product development process.

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“For decades the rulebook moved slowly enough that you could check compliance of the finished product and be fine. That assumption has stopped holding,” said Noel Hollingsworth, CEO and Co-Founder, Uncountable. “We think compliance belongs alongside formulation rather than in a review that happens afterward, and the software that people work with every day should reflect that.”

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The Uncountable platform unifies ELN, LIMS, PLM, and Quality in a single structured data model, supporting product development from early R&D through pilot and production. The Regulatory Management capability operates within this system, showing pass or fail status for every recipe ingredient in each target market, with the jurisdiction, product category, permitted level, link to the official source, and date it was last checked. Uncountable maintains its own regulations database using official sources, so customer teams do not need to update regulations manually.

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Uncountable’s Regulatory Management is more than a check against a banned-ingredients list. Regulatory limits are matched to the formulation's product category rather than to the ingredient alone because permitted levels can vary by application. Regulatory teams can override or edit any determination to match how their organization interprets a provision, and scheduled regulatory refreshes will not overwrite their edits.

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“The database was never the hard part. Making the answer defensible was,” said Brenda Jaroker, Product Manager, Uncountable. “Every ingredient row carries its citation and a link to the register it came from, so a regulatory manager can check our work instead of taking it on faith. And where their interpretation of a rule differs from ours, we allow customer admins to override certain checks.”

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A failing result can be configured to prevent a recipe from being locked or published, keeping regulatory issues from moving downstream unnoticed. Catching problems early matters because replacing a color or preservative can affect a product’s stability, shelf life, and manufacturing process. When ingredient regulatory screening happens in a separate system after formulation is complete, it is too late for the results to shape formulation decisions. In contrast, Uncountable’s Regulatory Management capability brings regulatory checks into the formulation workflow, giving teams visibility into requirements for each target market while recipes are being developed.

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To learn how Uncountable’s Regulatory Management can transform your formulation workflow, visit here or schedule a demonstration. Existing Uncountable customers can contact their account manager to discuss the new Regulatory Management capability.

Screenshot of Uncountable’s Regulatory Management capability within an apple juice from concentrate recipe. A formulation table lists ingredients, quantities, and US and Canada compliance status. Sodium Benzoate at 0.02% is marked “Fail” for the US and “Pass” for Canada, with a notice explaining that it exceeds the US limit for the product category and includes a citation.

FAQs

What is Uncountable's Regulatory Management?

Uncountable's Regulatory Management is a capability within the Uncountable product development platform that checks recipe ingredients against applicable regulations for each intended market as a formulation is developed.

How does Regulatory Management work?

The capability evaluates each ingredient in a recipe against market-specific regulatory requirements and displays a pass or fail result directly in the formulation workflow. Teams can identify potential compliance issues while adjusting the recipe, rather than after development work is complete.

What information appears with each regulatory result?

For each ingredient and target market, users can view the compliance status alongside relevant regulatory context, including the jurisdiction, product category, permitted level, official source citation, and the date the result was last checked.

Why does product category matter in regulatory screening?

An ingredient may be allowed in one application but restricted, limited, or prohibited in another. Regulatory Management evaluates an ingredient in the context of the formulation’s product category, helping teams assess requirements based on how that ingredient is being used.

Can regulatory teams apply their own interpretations?

Yes. Customer administrators can override or edit selected regulatory determinations when their organization interprets a provision differently. Those customer-specific edits are retained and are not overwritten by scheduled regulatory refreshes.