Avery This Food May Contain Allergy Advisory Labels 40 x 40mm, 500 Per Roll
Avery This Food May Contain Allergy Advisory Labels 40 x 40mm, 500 Per Roll
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This Food May Contain Allergy Advisory Labels
A pre-printed sticker that reads “This Food May Contain”. Avery's own line is that it clearly identifies which food items are unsafe to eat for people with allergy concerns.
Somebody has to fill it in. The label carries a pre-printed selection - Milk, Sesame Seeds, Tree Nuts, Shellfish, Wheat, Peanuts, Eggs, Soy, Fish, Gluten and Lupin - and Avery's instruction is that workers tick off the allergies that apply to the food being prepared. It arrives blank of any decision. What it communicates is whatever the person holding the pen marks on it.
What this label does not do. It is printed paper. It does not test food, it does not verify what is in a dish, and it does not make a kitchen compliant with anything. Avery publishes no allergen testing or verification claim for it, no HACCP claim and no certification by any body, and neither do we. What goes on the label is decided by whoever applies it, and the accuracy of that decision is the kitchen's, not the label's.
Is it safe against the food itself? Avery's answer, on their Food Safety Labels FAQ rather than on the product page, is no: their food safety labels are not intended for direct food contact and are designed to be applied to the outside of containers, packaging or storage surfaces, which keeps the label adhesive and ink away from the food itself.
Avery publishes a temperature range of -5°C to 60°C and calls the range safe for refrigeration. That covers a fridge and a commercial cool room. It is not a freezer rating, because -5 does not reach freezer temperature.
Avery publishes nothing about testing or verifying an allergen, no adhesive residue claim, no shelf life for the label stock itself, no waterproof, oil or moisture resistance and no dishwasher instruction for this code. Where they are silent, so are we.
What these are for. Restaurants and commercial catering, hospitals and aged care kitchens and childcare and day care food service, and similar work.
It sits in our food safety and rotation label range, alongside our label supplies category, Avery label and the rest of Avery.