Allergens

Food Allergens

All food businesses that provide unwrapped food or sell food that’s wrapped for sale (eg. restaurants, bakeries, butchers and deli’s) must provide information to customers about food allergens (14 of them), if they ask.

Businesses must also now comply with PPDS.  See our New PPDS legislation page.

You must ensure that:

If you produce food that is then wrapped for sale via another business, it is correctly labelled.

You give staff allergen awareness training.  This includes waiting and cleaning staff as well as those preparing or selling food.   See our training page for more information on Anaphylaxis Awareness or allergens in manufacturing.

Storage and use of allergens is included in your food safety management system.  We offer kitchen allergen audits looking at all aspects of managing food allergens in your business.

There are 14 allergens a business must be aware of:

For more information call 07786 622742 or email info@safetyinaction.co.uk