Schedule NEW SCHEDULE 2A TO BE INSERTED IN THE FOOD LABELLING REGULATIONS 1996
England and Wales
“SCHEDULE 2A
LIST OF INGREDIENTS WHICH ORIGINATE FROM ALLERGENIC INGREDIENTS AND IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE ALLERGEN LABELLING REQUIREMENTS DO NOT APPLY
Regulations 13(8)(c) and 34b(3)
Column 1 Column 2 Allergenic ingredient Exempt ingredients originating from allergenic ingredient Cereals containing gluten Wheat based glucose syrups including dextrose.1 Wheat based maltodextrins1.
Glucose syrups based on barley.
Cereals used in distillates for spirits.
Eggs Lysozym (produced from egg) used in wine.
Albumin (produced from egg) used as fining agent in wine and cider.
Fish F1Fish gelatine used as a carrier for vitamin or carotenoid preparations and flavours.
Fish gelatine or Isinglass used as fining agent in beer, cider and wine.
Soybean
Fully refined soybean oil and fat1.
Natural mixed tocopherols (E306), natural D–alpha tocopherol, natural D–alpha tocopherol acetate, natural D–alpha tocopherol succinate from soybean sources.
Phytosterols and phytosterol esters derived from vegetable oils obtained from soybean sources.
Plant stanol ester produced from vegetable oil sterols from soybean sources.
Milk Whey used in distillates for spirits.
Lactitol.
Milk (casein) products used as fining agents in cider and wines.
Nuts Nuts used in distillates for spirits.
Almonds and walnuts used as flavour in spirits.
Celery Celery leaf and seed oil.
Celery seed oleoresin.
Mustard Mustard oil.
Mustard seed oil.
Mustard seed oleoresin.
(Note)
( 1 ) And their products, in so far as the process that they have undergone is not likely to increase the level of allergenicity assessed by the European Food Safety Authority for the relevant product from which they originated.”
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. substituted (24.11.2005) by The Food Labelling (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2969), regs. 1, 4