Food Allergens Update

EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU FIC) – implementation of EU rules into UK law

The public consultations for the Food Information Regulation (FIR) and the Statutory Instruments (SI) for the four UK countries have now closed. The revised FIR SIs are expected to be published around the end of 2013; the technical guidance on the Regulations will also be published around that time.

Industry led technical guidance on allergen labelling of prepacked foods has now been issued by the British Retail Consortium and Food & Drink Federation.
http://www.brc.org.uk/downloads/Guidance%20on%20Allergen%20Labelling.pdf

The Food Standards Agency has updated its consumers leaflet “Advice on Food Allergen Labelling” to provide up to date consumer advice on what to expect with the changes to allergen labelling under the new regulation.
http://food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/allergy-leaflet.pdf

To provide support for enforcement officers and food businesses on allergen labelling and allergen management, we are also updating our allergy e-learning module which should be completed by November 2013.

Feedback on whether you would find continuation of the update helpful would be appreciated.