Those of your read my blog last week about the new allergen labeling regulations coming into force in the UK in 2014 may have noted Hazel Gowland's comment at the bottom about the legibility of labeling on prepacked foods – what you buy in the shops. I had suggested that we had …
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Gluten-free Labelling – for once we are ahead of the game!
My attention was drawn by an email last week, to the fact that although we (well, mainly freefrom manufacturers) may moan about the fact that we do not have any 'thresholds' for dairy or nuts contamination (we do not have a set figure of how little of the allergen they are …
Allergen labelling – and Green and Black’s
The Food and Drink Federation has just set off another round of huffing and puffing amongst food manufacturers by suggesting, perfectly reasonably and correctly, that allergen labelling is a mess. Their new paper, 'A vision for Allergen Management Best Practice in the Food …
Allergen and Freefrom Labelling
We recently received the following email from a site visitor: I have a son with a severe peanut allergy. We have a nut free home, and we do not buy products which 'may contain traces' of nuts or from factories which handle nuts, for obvious cross contamination reasons. I was …