Food Allergy Awareness Training
This Food Allergy Awareness Training is an essential piece of training for those producing, selling or handling food. All staff handling food should have a thorough understanding of allergens and the potential dangers surrounding them. This course also includes the requirements for pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) food labelling legislation changes that come into effect on the 1st October 2021 (Also known as Natasha’s law).
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It’s estimated that in the UK between 1 to 2% of adults and 5 to 8% of children have a food allergy (approx 2 million people)
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Learning outcomes
- Learn what the 14 major allergens are and understand the seriousness of a reaction to an allergen
- Understand the PPDS changes (Natasha's Law)
- Recognise the dangers of cross-contamination and know how to avoid it happening
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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1Food hypersensitivity
- 2Declaring allergens
- 3Managing risk
Section 1
In this first section, we will look at food hypersensitivity. This includes allergens, symptoms, severe allergic reactions, what food intolerances are and Coeliac disease.
Section 2
In this section, we will look at the Laws about foods and food products that are there to keep consumers safe and will look at how allergens in food and drink should be declared.
Section 3
In this final section, we look at what can be done to keep food safe. We will focus on the duty of care that producers of food products have to their consumers and look at risk assessments, storage, cleaning and identifying allergens.
About this course
This Food Allergen Training Course has been written for people who work with food; whether it’s food production, processing, packaging, distribution, food retail, or catering.
Anyone who works with food needs to know about allergens and allergen labeling. They particularly need to be aware of the changes to prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food labelling that came into force on the 1st of October 2021 (in Wales, England, and Northern Ireland). In the UK it’s estimated that 2 million people have an allergy to foods. Between 1998 and 2018, at least 30,700 people were admitted to the hospital for anaphylaxis caused by a food trigger.
As there is no cure for food allergies, they must be managed and the only way to do this is to avoid the foods which cause the allergy. It is therefore important that people with food allergies can easily find out which products contain the ingredients they are allergic to. In order to comply with the new UK Food Information Amendment (also known as Natasha’s Law), everyone working in the food industry is required to understand how to make this information readily available to consumers should they need to know.
Our Food Allergy Training course is the perfect online course for anyone working with food – It’s engaging, cost-effective and it only takes 35 minutes to complete!
See also:
- Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 1
- Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 2
- Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 3
- HACCP Training
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Food Allergy Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
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Your Food Allergy Awareness Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Very helpfull
Enjoyed listening to the training and it was additional knowledge to me in food preparation
Good content
Learnt a lot
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Great Course but some Irrelevant content
A great Course, well delivered with clear information. There is some Irrelevant content to our business with some content specific to catering businesses.
Informative and engaging
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I found it very useful to have the video and spoken word as I have dyslexia and memory loss so it is much easier for me to retain information
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The course helped be feel much more informed Easy to follow.
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Nicely broken up into bite size chunks of information
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
The Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019, commonly known as ‘Natasha’s law’ (Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, a teenager who died after suffering an allergic reaction to an undeclared ingredient in a pre-packed meal) comes into effect on 1st October 2021.
The amendment of the Food Information Regulations 2014 will require businesses producing food products to provide full ingredient lists and allergen labelling on PPDS (Prepacked for Direct Sale) foods on the premises. The new rules require the name of the food, all ingredients and allergenic ingredients to be emphasized in some way like bold or italics or a different colour.
These changes will apply to England with similar approaches expected to follow in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(4) After regulation 5, insert—
“Foods that are prepacked for direct sale – duty to list ingredients
5A.—(1) A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide directly on the package or on a label attached to the package the particulars required by—
