Alice Chaplin
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May 12, 2020 · “May contain” statements are a manufacturer’s warning that the product might have been somewhere in the vicinity of another product that contains the allergen noted at some time during the production process.
Jan 12, 2015 · When someone suffering from a potentially fatal nut allergy reads “may contain traces of nuts” on a food product label, just how worried should they be? That’s what scientists at the...
Guidance for small food businesses on using precautionary allergen labelling such as ‘may contain’. See all updates. View as PDF. Print this page. To help consumers make safe and informed...
tree nuts, such as almonds, pecans, or walnuts; wheat; peanuts; soybeans; sesame; The law requires that food labels identify the food source of all major food allergens used to make the food.
May 19, 2020 · The shortbread cookies might have a label saying “may contain peanuts,” even though no peanuts or peanut products have been used to make the actual cookie. The FDA does not mandate that all companies use this type of labeling.
The “May Contain:” label does not list recipe ingredients. The “May Contain:” label lists potential allergen exposure to a product when it’s manufactured in the same facility as a product that does contain nuts (or other offending allergens).
'May contain nuts/trace of nuts' warnings are becoming ever more complex and ever more difficult to interpret. It is not nuts themselves that are the problem, but the confusion arising from the laudable efforts of regulators and manufacturers to improve allergen labelling for the benefit of allergic consumers.
