Undeclared allergens continue to be a leading cause of recalls. In fact, between July and September of 2015, an astounding 53% of recalls were caused by undeclared allergens. These hidden threats pose a deadly risk to allergic consumers and threaten a company’s livelihood. Join us as we discuss proper allergen handling practices and share cross contact mitigation strategies to better protect your company.
Key Takeaways:
- Allergen testing is beneficial because it:
- Protects your consumers
- Protects your company and limits your liability by demonstrating due diligence
- Provides data and insight to conduct a proper risk assessment
- The most common cause of recalls is mislabeling
- As a best practice, facilities should use pre-operational visual inspection with a checklist, because if it looks clean, it generally tests clean!
- It is important to keep allergens top of mind so that employees are continuously aware of the role they play in preventing undeclared allergens
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