Food Allergy Awareness

Food Allergy Awareness

This Food Allergy Awareness Training is an essential piece of training for those producing, selling or handling food. All staff handling food should have a thorough understanding of allergens and the potential dangers surrounding them.

Learning outcomes

• Learn what the 14 major allergens are and understand the seriousness of a reaction to an allergen
• Understand the PPDS changes (Natasha's Law)
• Recognise the dangers of cross-contamination and know how to avoid it happening

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Food hypersensitivity
2. Declaring allergens
3. Managing risk

About this course

This Food Allergen Training Course has been written for people who work with food; whether it’s food production, processing, packaging, distribution, food retail, or catering.

Anyone who works with food needs to know about allergens and allergen labeling. They particularly need to be aware of the changes to prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food labelling that came into force on the 1st of October 2021 (in Wales, England, and Northern Ireland). In the UK it’s estimated that 2 million people have an allergy to foods. Between 1998 and 2018, at least 30,700 people were admitted to the hospital for anaphylaxis caused by a food trigger.

As there is no cure for food allergies, they must be managed and the only way to do this is to avoid the foods which cause the allergy. It is therefore important that people with food allergies can easily find out which products contain the ingredients they are allergic to.

Our Food Allergy Training course is the perfect online course for anyone working with food – It’s engaging, cost-effective and it only takes 35 minutes to complete!

See also:

• Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 1
• Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 2
• Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 3
• HACCP Training

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019, commonly known as ‘Natasha’s law’ (Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, a teenager who died after suffering an allergic reaction to an undeclared ingredient in a pre-packed meal) comes into effect on 1st October 2021.

The amendment of the Food Information Regulations 2014 will require businesses producing food products to provide full ingredient lists and allergen labelling on PPDS (Prepacked for Direct Sale) foods on the premises. The new rules require the name of the food, all ingredients and allergenic ingredients to be emphasized in some way like bold or italics or a different colour.

These changes will apply to England with similar approaches expected to follow in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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