Webinar: Modernizing Food Compliance: How AI Is Speeding Up Regulatory Review by The Food Institute

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About This Webinar

Food and supplement companies are facing a more complex compliance environment as regulatory expectations evolve, labeling scrutiny increases, and marketing claims come under greater attention. At the same time, companies are looking for new ways to improve efficiency and manage growing product portfolios without slowing innovation.

Join The Food Institute on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 2 PM ET for an hour-long session featuring Catherine Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Truli, and Michael Wu, co-founder and COO of Truli; and Blake Bouldin, Food Industry Regulatory & Commercialization Leader.

The discussion will explore the changing landscape of food compliance, including emerging FDA and FTC priorities, common labeling and claims challenges, and how artificial intelligence is helping companies modernize regulatory review processes.

The webinar will examine how food and supplement companies are adapting their compliance strategies, building scalable review workflows, and using AI-powered tools to support faster, more consistent decision-making while keeping regulatory expertise at the center of the process.

Topics to be covered include:

Emerging FDA and FTC enforcement trends impacting food and supplement companies

Common labeling, packaging, and marketing claim challenges

Strategies for building scalable compliance processes across product portfolios

How AI is supporting regulatory review and risk identification

Practical applications of AI in packaging, claims, and marketing material reviews

Best practices for balancing compliance, innovation, and speed to market

Whether you're a food manufacturer, supplement brand, retailer, regulatory professional, or legal and compliance leader, this session will provide insights into the future of food compliance and the tools helping companies navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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Sponsored by:

Truli

Truli is an AI-native compliance platform that helps food and beverage brands streamline regulatory compliance across the product lifecycle. Truli reviews packaging, labels, ingredient statements, marketing claims, websites, social media, and retailer listings to identify potential compliance risks early, while monitoring upcoming guidance, enforcement, state and global regulatory developments, and retailer policies that could impact products. By automating first-pass reviews, aggregating regulatory data, and keeping regulatory, legal, marketing, and product teams aligned in a single workflow, Truli helps companies launch products faster, stay ahead of regulatory change, and bring products to market with confidence.

To learn more, visit Truli.

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Catherine Zhou

Co-founder and CEO, Truli

Catherine Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Truli, where she leads the company's product and AI strategy. She works closely with food and beverage brands, regulatory experts, and legal professionals to develop AI tools that help modernize compliance workflows and navigate evolving regulatory requirements.

Prior to founding Truli, Catherine conducted machine learning research at Stanford University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, applying AI to healthcare and drug discovery. She has co-authored a publication in Nature and presented her research at international scientific conferences. Her experience building AI for complex, highly regulated fields inspired her to bring the same technology to regulatory compliance in the food and beverage industry.

Michael Wu

Co-founder and COO, Truli

Michael Wu is the co-founder and COO of Truli, where he leads the company's sales, marketing, and finance operations. He works directly with CPG brands, regulatory professionals, and channel partners to bring Truli's AI compliance platform to market, driving the company's first enterprise partnerships with brands across the food, beverage, and supplement industries.

Prior to founding Truli, Michael built AI products for startups and financial institutions. He also founded a nonprofit bringing live music to underserved communities, was an international piano champion, and a national debate champion. His firsthand experience navigating FDA compliance while launching a consumer product inspired him to build Truli and make regulatory expertise accessible to every brand.

Blake Bouldin

Food Industry Regulatory & Commercialization Leader

Blake Bouldin is a food industry regulatory and commercialization leader with more than 22 years of experience spanning product development, quality, food safety, regulatory affairs, and commercialization. For the past 11 years, he has specialized in regulatory strategy for food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods, helping organizations build regulatory capabilities, navigate complex requirements, manage risk, and bring products to market.

Throughout his career, Blake has built and transformed regulatory functions, guided high-volume and complex product portfolios, supported global commercialization, and developed teams and processes designed to identify regulatory risk before it becomes a business problem. At Liquid I.V., he built the regulatory function as the brand grew from approximately $300 million to more than $1 billion in annual sales, establishing a capability that was recognized with an internal Unilever award, with no major public regulatory enforcement actions during his tenure.