A new multilingual allergen resource for food businesses in Wales, England and Northern Ireland is now freely available and hosted on the CTSI (Trading Standards) website.

The materials have been made available as Natasha’s Law is about to come into force. The new law, due to be enacted in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on 1 October, means significant changes for labelling of food pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS).

Any food business selling PPDS food will be required to label it with the name of the food and full list of ingredients with allergenic ingredients emphasised within the list. 

The resources contain a variety of materials on the topic of food allergens. Included is an allergen awareness presentation video; a handout covering the presentation key messages; dubbed and subtitled versions of ‘Day in the Life of Chloe’ and ‘Megan’s Story’ and our ‘Tell Us If You Have An Allergy’ poster.

The assets are accompanied by a core presentation that covers a wide range of food allergen topics. This includes allergen management, food information and labelling rules, food hypersensitivities and reactions people can have to them.

All the resources can be found on the CTSI website.  Supporting videos can be found on the CTSI YouTube channel.