Food allergen management consultancy

Expert guidance and support in dealing with food allergens

Substances that can cause food hypersensitivity (including allergens) can occur at any stage of the food chain, from ‘farm to fork’. Since food allergens cannot be removed or processed out from products once they are present, effective food allergen management is essential for ensuring the safety of food for consumers with food hypersensitivity.

Dealing with this can be challenging – but we are here to help. We provide tailored, expert support to help to bolster your food allergen management, ensuring that your products are safe for consumption by those with food hypersensitivities and compliant with the relevant legislation.

We can support you by providing advice on various food safety management strategies for your specific processes and products, so you can implement the most effective solutions.

With over 100 years of expertise, we are well-equipped to provide food and drink businesses with tailored, expert support in all areas of food allergen management, including:

• Food safety management foundations
  • Food safety management systems
  • HACCP
  • Best practice guidance
  • Legislation and food allergen labelling
  • Allergen training
• Practical allergen control and cross-contact prevention
  • Practical food allergen control
  • Cross-contact precaution strategies
  • Barrier risk-based thinking in the context of food allergen management (BowTie)
• Risk assessment management and communication
  • Allergen quantitative risk assessment (QRA)
  • Allergen risk mapping, risk management and risk communication
• Hygienic design and cleaning assurance
  • Factory and equipment hygienic design and cleaning regimes
  • Cleaning validation and verification
• Verification audit and improvement
  • Auditing
  • Gap analysis to optimise your procedures and processes
• Labelling communications
  • Precautionary allergen labelling (PAL)
• Incident response and recovery
  • Incident management

By partnering with us, you will benefit from a bespoke and flexible service provided by experts, which encompasses a holistic understanding of global food safety, quality and regulatory requirements.

Food allergen testing

We offer flexible, bespoke food allergen testing, with interpretation support.