Audit your product listings for regulatory compliance.

Authex regulatory compliance audit is an audit solution that checks product listings on sales and promotion channels against your sector's regulatory rules, detects forbidden phrases and missing disclosures with evidence and reports them. Each non-compliance is recorded with its responsible party; the brand's team or legal adviser makes the legal assessment and decides on the correction.

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Overview

What is a regulatory compliance audit?

A regulatory compliance audit compares the wording and disclosures in listings by dealers, authorized sellers and marketplace sellers with the rules of your sector. A treatment claim in a cosmetics listing or a missing allergen statement in a food listing stays online under the brand's name even when the brand did not create the listing.

Authex uses country-specific rule sets, led by Türkiye and the European Union, for cosmetics, food and beverage, food supplements, over-the-counter medicines, apparel, automotive and electronics. Each listing is checked for forbidden phrases, required disclosures such as country of origin, allergens or ingredient lists, and claim substantiation. The audit reads the listing's product name, description and price text; it does not see images, labels or packaging.

Each non-compliance is recorded with the relevant rule and split by responsible party: the brand owner, an authorized seller, an unauthorized seller, an app developer or an advertiser.

Because non-compliance is split by responsible party, the brand's team decides on next steps such as asking a dealer for a correction or reporting to the platform; a draft notice can also be prepared for each finding.

Scope

What does it audit?

Rule sets by country, led by Türkiye and the European Union, are used for cosmetics, food and beverage, food supplements, over-the-counter medicines, apparel, automotive and electronics.

  • Forbidden phrases
  • Required disclosures
  • Claim substantiation
  • Origin and allergen disclosure
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Detection

What it catches.

01

Forbidden phrase

Health or treatment claims forbidden by sector rules are searched for in the listing text.

02

Missing required disclosure

Listings whose text lacks required disclosures such as country of origin, an allergen list or an ingredient list are flagged.

03

Unsubstantiated claim

Claims that need substantiation are flagged separately.

Evidence

What is in the evidence file?

  • Listing address
  • The non-compliant phrase and the related rule
  • Responsible party: brand owner, authorized or unauthorized seller, app developer or advertiser
  • A PDF per listing covering all its findings

Process

How does it work?

  1. Sectors and countries are chosen

    Product categories and the countries where you sell are defined.

  2. Rule sets are activated

    Rule sets matching the category and country are selected.

  3. Listings are collected

    Listings collected in Authex's scans are brought into the audit.

  4. Listings are checked against the rules

    Each listing's product name, description and price text are compared with the relevant rules.

  5. Non-compliance is tracked

    Each finding is recorded with its responsible party. The result list exports to Excel and PDF, and the findings per listing to PDF.

Who it is for

Who is it for?

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Manufacturers

Companies making regulated products such as cosmetics, food, supplements or over-the-counter medicines.

Exporters

Exporters selling in the European Union who want their listings audited against each country's rules.

Sellers and dealer networks

Brands whose products are listed by many dealers and sellers see who is responsible for each listing.

Lawyers and legal advisers

Lawyers assessing non-compliance work from a list of findings with the relevant rule and responsible party attached.

FAQ

Questions about Regulatory Compliance Audit

Does this audit replace legal advice?

Authex scans listings against rule sets and flags non-compliance together with the relevant rule. The legal assessment and decisions belong to your experts and legal adviser.

Which sectors have rule sets?

Cosmetics, food and beverage, food supplements, over-the-counter medicines, apparel, automotive and electronics, with country-specific rule sets led by Türkiye and the European Union.

Which listings are audited?

Listings collected in Authex's scans are audited. The audit reads the product name, description and price text; images, labels and packaging are outside its scope.

Who gets a non-compliant listing corrected?

Authex records the non-compliant listing with the relevant rule and its responsible party and can prepare a draft notice for the finding. The decision to contact the seller or the platform, and the sending, belong to the brand's team.

How are results shared?

Each finding is recorded with its responsible party; the result list can be exported to Excel and PDF, and the findings per listing to PDF.

Meeting request

Let's look together at how your brand is used across digital channels.

The first meeting reviews your brand, sales channels and the risks you face, and recommends a monitoring scope.

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