7th Jan 2022 - 09:30
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Consultancy Allergen Accreditation has launched Allergen Aware Month this January to highlight the importance of staying allergen aware for caterers.
Allergen Aware Month is a pledge from all types of food and beverage businesses to re-boot their allergen awareness, remind staff to be compliant with the law, refresh their training and generally get all employees re-focussed and alert to this essential aspect of working in catering and hospitality.
Allergen Accreditation have prepared some useful resources to support businesses. This year's resource pack contains:
- PPDS (Natasha's Law) The Refresher
- Training- about what training is appropriate, available as well as the link to the updated (June 2020) FSA's free online training for everyone
- Useful links- free resources to support your needs including allergen and labelling software support
- About the Anaphylaxis Campaign- the trusted source for allergen factsheets and more
- Remember when designing your menus- use words to describe hidden/ unexpected allergens
- Digital support- tech support is well overdue for any business, and this gets you started as well as offers the ability to include calorie/ nutrition information that you may need to do in 2022
- Precautionary Allergen Labelling (PAL) There's a consultation out now and you are invited to take part, with the Food Standards Agency
- The OneMcPeakeChallenge - will raise awareness and funds to support NARF and their quest to develop immunotherapy for allergy sufferers
- Primary Allergen Authority Scheme (PAAS) Where group businesses take ownership of the Allergen Accreditation scheme and develop it internally- a new era