Food allergen testing (including for other substances that cause food hypersensitivity)

Food business operators have a legal responsibility to produce safe food; this includes providing information to consumers with food hypersensitivity (including allergy), and those purchasing and preparing food for them, to enable them to make safe choices.

This includes the validation, where feasible, and verification of all elements of a business’s food allergen management system.

We can perform analysis for a variety of purposes, including:

• Demonstrating that controls and procedures in place to manage food allergens are working;
• Validation and verification of cleaning to remove food allergens;
• Providing evidence for compliance with claims (for example, gluten-free, milk-free, lactose-free);
• Assisting investigations into customer complaints
• Determining the food allergen status of raw ingredients;
• Supporting quantitative risk assessment to inform the decision whether to provide precautionary allergen labelling/information.

By partnering with us, you will benefit from a flexible bespoke service, providing advice on sampling and the best analytical method to meet your needs, including both routine and urgent turnaround analysis, as required, with expert interpretation of results and their implications for your holistic food allergen management system.