Reduced Risk Products

Driving Innovation in Reduced-Risk Product Development

Helping people make better choices with safer nicotine products CDP’s multi-disciplined team accelerates reduced-risk nicotine and tobacco product development by helping you create products that more people want to use, regulators will approve, and your business can deliver at scale. Our expertise combines science, design, and regulatory insight to bring safer alternatives to market quickly and responsibly.

With almost 20 years of dedicated RRP sector experience, we make a difference to client product innovation

• Deep product engineering and consulting experience
  We have extensive hands-on experience across both tobacco harm reduction (THR) and reduced risk products (RRP), helping clients move from idea to launch with confidence. We have extensive hands-on experience across both tobacco harm reduction (THR) and reduced risk products (RRP), helping clients move from idea to launch with confidence.
• Understanding evolving regulation
  We help you navigate complex and changing regulatory frameworks, building compliance into product development from the very start.
• Insight into markets and consumers
  We know what matters to consumers and how the market is evolving, because we go beyond what traditional consumer research can tell you. That knowledge shapes better products and smarter decisions.
• Experience where it counts
  Our team brings together expertise from RRP, healthcare, consumer and industrial sectors, giving us a unique approach to this fast-changing market.
• One team, all under one roof
  Scientists, engineers, designers, and regulatory experts work side-by-side in our Cambridge (UK) and Raleigh (US) facilities, keeping projects moving efficiently and securely.

User-centered insight
Understanding consumer needs and behaviours is where every successful THR and RRP product starts. We combine market knowledge with human-centred research to ensure products are relevant, desirable, and designed for real use.

Prototyping and product engineering
We turn ideas into working prototypes, stress-tested for performance, safety, and user experience. Our engineering teams solve complex technical challenges and prepare technical platforms and products for scale.

Ideation and design
Our teams generate and refine concepts that balance consumer appeal, regulatory requirements, and technical feasibility. We design solutions that meet business objectives while delivering safer alternatives that more people will adopt.

Routes to success in the therapeutic cannabinoid market: Insights from the e-cigarette experience

Our involvement in the cannabinoid market has prompted us to reflect on our experiences of working in the tobacco harm reduction (THR) sector which since its inception has grown rapidly. Like THR, the cannabinoid market also operates within an environment of volatile public perceptions, political instability and scrutiny from the regulators.

Meet The Team