Emphasising Allergenic Ingredients
The allergenic ingredients need to be emphasised using a typeset that clearly distinguishes it from the rest of the ingredients, for example by means of the font, style or background colour. Food businesses can choose what method they want to use to emphasise the 14 allergens on their product label.
When a product is not required to provide an ingredients list such as a bottle of wine, any allergenic ingredients within this product must be declared using a 'Contains...' statement followed by the name of the allergenic substance as listed in Annex II and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No. 78/2014 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.
Where several ingredients or processing aids in a food originates from a single allergenic ingredient, the labelling should make this clear for each ingredient or processing aid concerned, for example: skimmed milk powder, whey (milk), lactose (milk).
Where the name of the food (such as a box of eggs or bag of peanuts) clearly refers to the allergenic ingredients concerned, there is no need for a separate declaration of the allergenic food.
Where foods are offered to sale to the final consumer or to mass caterers without packaging, or where foods are packed on the sales premises at the consumer's request or prepacked for direct sale, information about allergenic ingredients is mandatory and must be provided.
Allergen information must be provided for non-prepacked foods in written or oral formats with clear signposting to where consumers can obtain this information, when it is not provided upfront.
