Food allergen label maker

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Enter your recipe. The ingredient list is ordered by weight and the 14 allergens you mark are emphasised, ready for a prepacked-for-direct-sale (Natasha's Law) or FIC label; for the US it writes the "Contains" statement instead. Calculated live in your browser, then styled and exported as a print-ready label. Seeing and copying the list is free; you pay only to export the finished label.

The FIC rules (Reg (EU) 1169/2011, assimilated) and US FALCPA (21 U.S.C. §343(w)) are transcribed from the official texts and checked against them. The tool orders the list and emphasises (or, for the US, lists in a "Contains" statement) the allergens you mark; it does not guess allergens from ingredient names, and does not produce the nutrition declaration or QUID. Read the notes before printing a label for sale.

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Prepacked for direct sale (Natasha's Law)

Food packed where it is sold, before the customer asks for it, like boxed cakes on a stall or sandwiches wrapped in the morning and sold from the same counter. Natasha's Law asks its label for the name and the ingredient list with the allergens emphasised; the other fields below are not required by it.

Food nameNet quantityDateStorageBusiness name & address

Ingredients

Enter each ingredient with its weight, and tick the allergens it contains (from your supplier's spec). Heaviest first is worked out for you. For a compound ingredient (like jam or chocolate), add its sub-ingredients and they list in brackets, in their own descending weight order.

Ingredient declaration

Print-ready label

Exports are the paid step. Everything else, including the declaration and the notes, is free.

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Barcode (optional)

The number GS1 gave you for this product, drawn black on white across the foot of the label, as scanners need. Do you need one? The same barcode on its own is free with the barcode generator.

BarcodeNumber, from GS1SizePlace

Print several on one sheet (A4 or US Letter)

For printing at home: copies of this label on one page, to cut out along the marks or to print onto a sheet of ready-cut labels.

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Print it at 100 % ("Actual size"), not "Fit to page". Try one on plain paper first and hold it against your sheet, up to the light, to check the fit.

Read before you print

Natasha's Law labels: what a PPDS label must showWhat food prepacked for direct sale must carry across the UK since October 2021: the name, the ingredient list with allergens emphasised, and what it need not show.

Short answers to the questions makers ask, each with its sources: