Standards.

The food regulatory standard.

A reference for how food merchants should describe their catalog so AI agents and shopping channels can read it correctly. Allergens, ingredients, country-of-origin, GS1 paths. Citation authority, not a product paywall.

Publishing in the second half of 2026, after the ingestion engine ships and the first cohort of merchant catalogs has been verified against it. Free to read. Free to cite.

What it covers.

Six pillars. Each one a hidden multiplier on whether a food SKU shows up where shoppers and agents look for it.

• Allergen disclosure — the 14 declarable allergens, plus crops without protected status.
• Ingredient ordering — descending by weight, with sub-ingredient parentheticals where required.
• Country-of-origin — primary plus QUID where the marketing claim depends on it.
• GS1 barcode path — GTIN allocation, the case for Variable Measure, when prefix-7 is wrong.
• Storage + use-by — ambient vs chilled vs frozen, opened-shelf-life vs sealed.
• Channel readability — Google Shopping, Amazon Fresh, Ocado, Deliveroo. The schemas that read each pillar.

Tell us when.

Get a note when the first version of the standard publishes.

One email when v1 lands. No newsletter, no drip, no sales sequence. Tell us a bit about your catalog and which pillars matter most to you so the first version covers what you need.