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ALLERGEN LABELLING IN THE UK: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS Food allergies impact 2.4 million people in the UK, with up to 6% of adults and 5% of children affected. Over the past two decades, hospital admissions for severe allergic reactions have doubled. For businesses handling non-prepacked foods – such as restaurants, cafes, and … Continued
Nutrient Profile Models (NPMs) are calculations used to assess the healthfulness of foods based on their nutritional composition, including calorie content. Most models consider contributions from nutrients that are considered to be beneficial to health and offset this against nutrients that should be limited within a healthy diet to give an overarching health score. The … Continued
by Frankie Douglas, Head of Regulatory Affairs at Nutritics As the mother of a daughter with a diagnosed food allergy, I know all too well the challenges and fearthat comes with eating out. After all, food allergens are a matter of life and death and getting it wrongcan have tragic consequences. When Natasha’s law was … Continued
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Safety Authority of Ireland are advising people who have a peanut allergy to avoid consuming foods that contain or may contain mustard, mustard powder or mustard flour due to potential peanut contamination.[1,2] Mustard ingredients – including mustard powder or flour – can be found in many foods … Continued
With six months to go between now and the implementation of Natasha’s Law, Nutritics, founders of the UK Food Labelling Resource and the only provider of a one-stop solution for Natasha’s Law share their top tips for food operators who need to meet the obligations. From 1st October 2021, Natasha’s Law (the UK Food Information … Continued
Nutritics have announced a new partnership with Brakes, the UK’s leading foodservice provider. Nutritics and Brakes have joined forces to launch a one-stop solution called “Virtual Chef Online”, an advanced, groundbreaking suite of online recipe and menu management tools for foodservice operators including: The partnership will provide an exciting opportunity for food businesses to ensure … Continued
The Natasha’s Allergy Research Foundation has set up a £2.2m clinical trial aiming to improve treatment of allergies. The study will examine whether commonly available peanut and milk products can be used as an alternative to expensive pharmaceutical drugs to ‘desensitise’ patients with allergies. If successful, it could make life easier for people with food … Continued
The UK Food Information Amendment, also known as ‘Natasha’s Law’, was introduced in October 2021 to protect allergy sufferers and give them confidence in the food they buy. Natasha’s Law states that for all pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS), the name of the food and all ingredients must be listed on the packaging with allergenic … Continued
Keeping food label information up-to-date and accurate has never been more important with most food businesses now having a legal obligation to provide detailed ingredient lists with accurate allergen listings. The Nutritics LabelMagic system enables real time sharing of verified food label information from production sites to different locations in a read only format. Printing … Continued
Using claims on foods can be tricky, and it’s important to get them right. We get lots of questions about how to use claims on foods. Here are the ones we get asked most often: Who sets nutrition claims? Nutrition claims are established by the Annex of EU Regulation 1926/2006. Who enforces nutrition claims? … Continued