How many allergens are listed in the 2014 regulations?

The 14 allergens listed in Annex II (as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation No. 78/2014) are recognised across Europe as the most common ingredients or processing aids causing food allergies and intolerances.

What is the name of the 2014 legislation relating to allergen Labelling?

The FIC Regulation requires allergen labelling on pre-packed foods to be made clearer and given more emphasis. It also introduces a new mandatory requirement for allergen information to be provided for non pre-packed foods, including those sold in restaurants and cafés.

How should the 14 listed allergenic ingredients be displayed on pre-packed food?

Pre-packed food must have an ingredients list. Allergenic ingredients must be emphasised in some way every time they appear in the ingredients list. For example, you can list them in bold, contrasting colours or by underlining them.

What are the 14 items that must be highlighted as an allergen on food ingredient lists?

14 Allergens

• Cereals containing gluten – wheat (such as spelt and khorasan wheat), rye, barley, oats Note: The cereal name e.g ‘wheat’, must be declared and highlighted, not ‘gluten’
• Crustaceans e.g. crabs, prawns, lobsters.
• Eggs.
• Fish.
• Peanuts.
• Soybeans.
• Milk.

What are the 14 major allergens?

The 14 allergens are: celery, cereals containing gluten (such as barley and oats), crustaceans (such as prawns, crabs and lobsters), eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs (such as mussels and oysters), mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites (if they are at a concentration of more than ten parts …

Is coconut a declared allergen?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes coconut as a tree nut, and thus an allergen that must be declared.

What are the 14 allergies?

How are FDA thresholds used for allergenic foods?

The FDA Threshold Working Group evaluated several possible approaches that might be used to establish thresholds for allergenic foods and concluded that “the quantitative risk assessment-based approach provides the strongest, most transparent scientific analyses to establish thresholds for the major food allergens.

What’s the best way to avoid allergenic foods?

Food-allergic consumers attempt to entirely avoid the allergenic foods that provoke their symptoms (a zero threshold approach). The food industry attempts to clean shared equipment until no allergens remain (also a zero threshold approach).

How is the action level of an allergen calculated?

•Action level (or Management (action) level): level of allergen in a food, below which the risk of a reaction is deemed insignificant. Calculated from the Reference Dose multiplied by the likely amount exposed to the sensitive consumer, (i.e. amount of food to be consumed per eating occasion).

When to use gluten free exemption for allergenic foods?

For specified allergenic foods and derivatives (Also must label all deliberately added ingredients and additives) Some exemptions for a few allergenic derivatives Gluten free claim when product <20ppm Food Allergen Risk Management Labelling •Where food allergens intentionally present in foodstuffs…