Regulated Industries

Catch Legal Risks Before They Publish

Pattern-based + AI detection for regulated content — not a generic spell-check.

If you publish content in medicine, supplements, cosmetics, food, or wellness, you're operating under strict advertising regulations. Symbion scans your content for healing claims, forbidden guarantees, missing disclaimers, and unsupported scientific statements — with industry-specific rules that know the difference between HWG and EU Cosmetics Regulation.

5
Industries
HWG · Supplements · Cosmetics · Food · Wellness
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Risk Levels
Critical · High · Medium · Low
2
Detection Layers
Pattern + AI
Disclaimers
Industry-specific templates

Symbion does not replace legal review.

This is an assistance system — not a legal authority. Symbion makes compliance risks visible, provides industry-specific context, and suggests alternatives. But the final decision remains with you and your legal advisors. No tool can guarantee legal compliance. We help you see the risks. Your team decides how to handle them.

The Problem

One wrong claim can cost more than the campaign earned.

Regulated industries don't have a "fix it later" option. A healing claim in a supplement product page, an unsupported percentage in cosmetics copy, a missing disclaimer on a wellness article — these aren't style issues. They're legal risks. And most content workflows have no safety net.

Invisible Risk

'Clinically proven' sounds professional — but without evidence, it's a compliance violation. These phrases hide in plain sight, and content editors aren't legal experts.

Industry-Specific Rules

HWG rules differ from EU Cosmetics Regulation. Food health claims follow different rules than supplement claims. Generic spell-checks don't know the difference.

No Pre-Publish Safety Net

Most teams only discover compliance issues after publication — from a competitor's complaint, a regulatory warning, or worse. By then, the content has been live for weeks.

Dual-Layer Detection

Patterns catch the obvious. AI catches the subtle.

Symbion runs two detection layers. First, pattern-based rules scan your content locally and instantly — catching forbidden phrases, superlatives, guaranteed outcomes, and known problematic structures. These run in real-time as you type.

Then, AI-powered analysis examines the full context — finding subtle implications, misleading combinations, and claims that only become problematic in their specific industry context. Results are merged, deduplicated, and scored.

Pattern check: instant, local, runs in WordPress editor
AI check: context-aware, industry-specific, via Cloud API
Results merged and deduplicated automatically
Real-time editor feedback for critical/high findings

Compliance Finding — Live Example

Criticalhealing_claims
Flagged text:

"cures cancer"

Healing claims are prohibited under HWG.

Suggested alternative:

"may support treatment of" or "contributes to"

Score impact: −25 points
Mediumscientific_claims

"clinically proven effective"

Requires verifiable evidence. Score impact: −8 points.

Every finding includes risk level, category, explanation, and alternative phrasing.

Philosophy

Visibility, not blocking. Symbion makes risks visible — it doesn't censor content.

Compliance findings are informational. Symbion does not automatically remove, rewrite, or suppress flagged content. There is no silent editing, no auto-rejection, no censorship mechanism. Your content stays exactly as you wrote it.

What Symbion does: surface risks, provide context, suggest alternatives, and calculate a score. What you do with that information is your decision. The human remains responsible for the final content.

No auto-removal
Flagged content stays in place. Nothing is deleted.
No silent rewriting
Suggestions are optional. Text is never changed for you.
Human decides
Every finding is a recommendation. You decide the action.
Industry-Specific

Five industries. Five rulesets. One workflow.

Each industry has its own advertising regulations. Symbion applies the right rules for your content — including industry-specific patterns, risk categories, and disclaimer templates. Select your industry. The rules follow automatically.

🏥

Medicine & Pharmaceuticals

Heilmittelwerbegesetz (HWG)

Healing claims, disease names, before/after comparisons, scientific claims without evidence

💊

Dietary Supplements

LFGB, Health Claims Regulation, NemV

Unapproved health claims, weight loss promises, mandatory disclaimers for supplements

Cosmetics

EU Cosmetics Regulation, Claims Regulation

Medical claims for cosmetics, exaggerated wrinkle claims, unsubstantiated percentage claims

🍎

Food & Beverages

Health Claims Regulation, LMIV

Unapproved health claims, disease prevention claims, misleading nutritional statements

🧘

Wellness & Lifestyle

UWG, HWG (health references)

Health-related claims in wellness context, diagnosis claims, treatment promises

⚙️

Custom Rules

Your own terms + whitelist

Add your own forbidden terms and whitelist exceptions. Custom rules integrate with pattern detection and apply across all industries.

Compliance Score — Risk Deductions

CriticalLegally clearly prohibited
−25
HighLikely problematic
−15
MediumCould be problematic
−8
LowBest practice / recommendation
−3
Score Labels
90–100
Excellent
70–89
Good
50–69
Needs Work
30–49
Critical
0–29
Severe
Risk Scoring

A compliance score that means something.

Every finding has a risk level. Every risk level has a fixed point deduction. Your compliance score starts at 100 and subtracts based on what's found — a single critical finding (like a healing claim) drops you 25 points. Two medium findings cost 16. The math is transparent, the score is actionable.

No hidden weights, no opaque algorithms. You know exactly why your score is what it is — and exactly what to fix to improve it.

Disclaimer Generator

Missing disclaimers? You'll know — and get the template.

When your content requires a disclaimer — because it mentions dietary supplements, wellness treatments, or individual results — Symbion flags it and provides the right industry-specific template. Not generic text. The actual required disclaimer for your industry and content type.

Templates cover general product disclaimers, testimonial qualifications, dosage warnings, allergy notices, and no-diagnosis statements — each mapped to the industry that requires them.

Disclaimer Templates by Industry

💊Supplements — General

"Dietary supplements are not a substitute for a balanced, varied diet and a healthy lifestyle."

🏥Medicine — Testimonials

"Individual experiences may vary and are not scientifically verified."

🧘Wellness — No Diagnosis

"No diagnoses are made and no diseases are treated."

Automatically suggested when content requires a disclaimer.

Stability Principles

Compliance checks run when content changes — not on a schedule.

Compliance scanning is triggered by meaningful content changes — not continuously. If your content hasn't changed, your compliance score hasn't changed. No re-scanning unchanged pages, no fluctuating scores from identical content.

Compliance findings respect existing decisions and are only updated when underlying content changes. Assessments are versioned and reproducible — the same content with the same rules produces the same result, ensuring consistent compliance evaluation over time.

This is the same Decision Stability principle that runs through every Symbion feature — from Keyword Reality Check to SEO Analysis to SEO Optimization. Your compliance state is stable until your content changes.

Scope & Boundaries

Clear scope. No overreach.

Professional means knowing what you cover — and what you don't. Symbion scans advertising content for regulated-industry risks. It does not cover all legal domains. Here's exactly what falls inside and outside the scope.

What Symbion checks

Healing claims and health promises
Unsupported scientific statements
Forbidden guarantees and absolutes
Misleading advertising copy
Missing mandatory disclaimers
Unapproved health claims (HWG, LFGB, Health Claims VO)
Exaggerated cosmetic claims
Before/after comparisons
Custom forbidden terms

Outside the scope

Individual legal advice or case assessment
Contract law, IP law, or trademark disputes
GDPR / data privacy compliance
Tax or financial regulatory requirements
Industry certifications or labeling regulations
Jurisdiction-specific advertising case law

These require professional legal counsel. Symbion is an assistance system for advertising-content risks — not a replacement for a legal department.

Content Sources Scanned

Post Title
Headlines are high-visibility, high-risk.
Body Content
Full post content, HTML stripped.
Excerpt
Displayed in search results and archives.
SEO Meta Tags
Yoast and RankMath title/description.
WooCommerce
Product short descriptions.
ACF Fields
Text, textarea, and WYSIWYG.
Comparison

Symbion vs. Manual Compliance Review

CapabilityManual ReviewSymbion
Detection timingAfter publicationBefore publish, in the editor
Industry rulesDepends on reviewer expertiseAutomated ruleset per industry
Subtle implicationsEasily missedAI detects context-dependent issues
ScoringSubjectiveTransparent per-finding point deductions
Alternative phrasingRequires legal knowledgeConcrete suggestions per finding
DisclaimersRemembered or forgottenAuto-detected + templates provided
Content scopeUsually main text onlyTitle, excerpt, meta, WooCommerce, ACF fields
Custom termsInformal internal listConfigurable forbidden terms + whitelist
For Developers & Agencies

API-driven compliance. Full control.

Compliance Check API

POST /api/v1/seo/compliance-check — pass content and industry, get findings with risk levels, categories, suggestions, and compliance score.

Real-Time Editor Mode

Pattern-based checks run locally in WordPress — no API call needed. Critical and high findings surface instantly as you type.

Custom Rules

Add your own forbidden terms and whitelist exceptions via WordPress settings. Custom rules merge with industry patterns automatically.

Full Content Collection

Scans title, body, excerpt, SEO meta, WooCommerce short descriptions, and ACF text/textarea/WYSIWYG fields. Nothing is missed.

Per-License Isolation

All compliance data, findings, and custom rules are isolated per license. Agency clients never mix.

15+ Finding Categories

Healing claims, guarantees, superlatives, testimonials, before/after, scientific claims, weight loss promises, percentage claims, and more.

Legal Disclaimer

This service serves as an assistance tool and does not replace professional legal advice. Pattern detection and AI analysis cannot identify all legal issues. Symbion assumes no liability for legal consequences arising from the use or non-use of this service.

Why this matters: In regulated industries, compliance isn't optional — it's the baseline. Symbion gives you a pre-publish safety net: pattern detection for the obvious, AI analysis for the subtle, risk scoring for prioritization, and disclaimer templates for what's required. That's not another checklist. That's compliance as a workflow step.

Publish with confidence
— in regulated industries.

Pattern-based and AI-powered compliance scanning, industry-specific rulesets, transparent risk scoring, and disclaimer templates. Built into WordPress.