Allergen Labelling and Artwork Control

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About Course

Most allergen recalls do not start with a dirty machine. They start with a label: a compound ingredient nobody unpacked, an artwork version that was never withdrawn, a recipe change that reached production three weeks before it reached the packaging store.

This course covers that half of allergen management, and it is the half with the least training available anywhere. It works through declaring allergens inside compound ingredients, derivatives and additives; reading a supplier specification for what it is not telling you; deciding a precautionary statement on evidence rather than on nerves, including the action level arithmetic behind it; running an artwork change from recipe to line clearance without leaving obsolete packaging reachable; and building a declaration that holds across several export markets.

It is written for people who already work in food and now own the label.

What Will You Learn?

  • Declare an allergen correctly inside a compound ingredient, a derivative and an additive.
  • Read a supplier specification well enough to know what it is not telling you.
  • Decide, defensibly, whether a precautionary statement belongs on a label — and when it must not.
  • Calculate an action level from a published reference dose and a realistic serving size.
  • Run an artwork change from recipe through approval, printing and line clearance.
  • Control obsolete packaging so it cannot reach a line.
  • Reconcile labels at line clearance and know what a discrepancy actually means.
  • Build one declaration that satisfies several export markets, or know when you cannot.
  • Investigate a labelling near miss and find the system failure rather than the person.

Course Content

Module 1: The declaration and the law behind it

  • Lesson 1: Learning outcomes and the legal map
    01:50
  • Lesson 2: What R146 requires, and the derivative problem
  • Lesson 3: Supplier specifications and what they do not tell you

Module 2: Precautionary labelling, decided properly

Module 3: Artwork and change control

Module 4: One product, several markets

Final Assessment

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