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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. In order to comply with the new UK Food Information Amendment (also known as Natasha's Law), everyone working in the food industry is required to understand how to make this information readily available to consumers should they need to know.
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!
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Food Allergy Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
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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.
(4) After regulation 5, insert—
“Foods that are prepacked for direct sale – duty to list ingredients
5A.—(1) A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide directly on the package or on a label attached to the package the particulars required by—
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