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These documents provide voluntary best practice advice to help food retailers and caterers selling food that is not pre-packed provide allergen information on the food they sell.
Food businesses selling food prepared or wrapped on site are not required by law to indicate whether it contains ingredients that people may be allergic to such as nuts, wheat or eggs. This makes eating out and buying food that is not pre-packed particularly difficult for food allergic customers because there is less information on which allergens are present in the food and so it is harder for them to know which foods are safe for them to eat. In this sector, communication between staff and the customer and between staff within the business is key to ensuring that customers receive accurate information about the food sold.
This guidance package provides best practice advice on how to tackle allergy issues in the non-prepacked food sector. It is in three parts so that you can have the information in the most appropriate format:
If you would like to order copies of any of these gudiance documents call Food Standards Agency Publications on 0845 606 0667 or email foodstandards@ecgroup.co.uk .
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(pdf 506KB) The provision of allergen information for non pre-packed foods Read the full guidance noteDownload pdf
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