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Food for thought as Natasha's Law comes into act this October and substitute products are the unforeseen challenge with the full detailed ingredient disclosure labelling

Food for thought as Natasha's Law comes into act this October and substitute products are the unforeseen challenge with the full detailed ingredient disclosure labelling
One of the biggest issues food businesses face with Natasha's Law is the term full ingredient disclosure. At first this does not seem such a daunting task and once you have created your ingredient listing job done.

However from October this year it will be the responsibility of the food business owner to get this right. Well are ready for this challenge ?


Barcode Technologies offers such businesses a easy to use labelling solution for ALL the printing warnings as well and clearly showing all the ingredients used with an EPoS barcode for retail sales

The biggest unforeseen challenge here is substitute ingredients.

For example, let's say you run a sandwich business and make over 100 variety of products of which 20 of them are varieties of white bread based products. You source your bread from a local baker who's oven has now broke down and he cannot supply you with your usual bread. To get over this you have to source bread from a different supplier and the ingredient listing for that bread will be different. This substitute products ingredient information must be updated on all of the white bread products. Multiply this across any other ingredient you may need to substitute for your product range and you can start to see the challenge here.

The sub ingredient tool inside our Front of House module helps to resolve this issue by managing the ingredients at a single record level. So instead of having to search through a database of products replacing ingredients, simply open the sub ingredient editor, edit the ingredient list of that specific sub ingredient that has changed, in this example white bread and save it. Instantly all of your 20 white bread products now have the latest ingredient list.

Food for thought and the unforeseen challenge is the term full detailed ingredient disclosure before Oct-2021.

Are you are already ?

Barcode Technologies Ltd is offering a complete labelling solution to businesses for ALL the printing warnings as well as clearly showing all the ingredients used with an EPoS barcode for retail sales to satisfy the Natasha’s Food Labelling Laws

For all food labelling showing ingredients in pre-packed for direct sale foods - Barcode Technologies offers a complete labeling solutions to adhere to this law including an easy to use software as well as the printer and labels.

Natasha's legacy becomes law and Natasha’s Food Labelling Law introduced to protect allergy sufferers provide them the confidence and safety in the food they buy to ensure that businesses of all sizes can prepare and adapt to these changes for the safety of their customers. Pre-packed directly for sale are now required to have product labels which provide information on the full ingredients or the allergens contained.

Barcode Technologies offers such businesses a easy to use labelling solution for ALL the printing warnings as well and clearly showing all the ingredients used with an EPoS barcode for retail sales. This including hardware as well as easy to use software at the shop staff level. All pre-packed for direct sale food will need full labelling showing accurately and clearly the ingredients used for people who have food allergies and intolerances.

There are 14 allergens that need to be clearly declared are celery, cereals containing gluten including wheat, rye, barley and oats, crustaceans, such as prawns, crabs and lobsters, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, such as mussels and oysters, mustard, tree nuts – including almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios and macadamia nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites at a concentration of more than ten parts per million.

There are millions of allergy sufferers across the country will be protected by a new law laid in Parliament, requiring all food businesses to include full ingredients labelling on pre-packed for direct sale foods.

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