FDF Gluten Labelling Guidance: Best Practice for Prepacked Foods which Include or Exclude Cereals Containing Gluten.
This updated UK best practice guidance aims to provide advice to food business operators, irrespective of size, on how to label food products that include cereals containing gluten; alongside the claims that can be made relating to the absence or reduced presence of gluten (e.g. gluten-free).
The document has been developed to illustrate examples of different labelling
situations, with special
consideration given to oats and wheat species. It provides information about
the
distinction between
coeliac disease and cereal allergy, advice on precautionary allergen labelling,
and a flow diagram for
making gluten absence claims.
Download: Gluten Labelling Guidance
Foreword
“The Food Standards Agency welcomes the FDF's work to achieve greater
consistency in how
the presence of cereals containing gluten and gluten-free claims are labelled
on
prepacked foods.
Having a trusted consistent approach will make it easier for people with
coeliac
disease or with allergies
to these cereals to find and understand the labelling information they need.
And
that means they can
make safer food choices. I am very pleased to see further progress in this
important area of public health
and consumer protection.”
Heather Hancock, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency
Last reviewed: 03 Jun 2019