FOOD PREPARATION |
Declaration of ingredients used in preparation |
Choice of foods or meals that are free of nuts, peanuts, eggs, and celery (food does not have to meet every criteria) |
Substitutes free of cow’s milk and lactose for milk in coffee |
Yearly information sessions for kitchen staff – including temporary employees – to improve allergy prevention, carried out by a trained allergy specialist |
INTERIORS |
Non-smoking areas |
Prohibition of animals |
Restriction of allergy-causing plants (Ficus benjamini, grass, hazel, birch) |
DECLARATIONS
The following ingredients should be declared when used in the recipe of a product:
The 14 legally required allergy declarations | Additional declaration |
Cereals containing gluten: | Spices: |
Nuts: | Vegetables and plants of the nightshade |
Eggs and egg products | Fruit: |
Peanuts and peanut products | Carrageen |
Soy and soy products | Guar flour |
Mustard and mustard products | Carob bean flour |
Shellfish and shellfish products | Poppy seeds |
Fish and fish products | Balsam of Peru |
Milk and milk products | Millet |
Celery and celery products | Buckwheat |
Sulphur dioxide or sulphites in a concentration | |
Sesame seeds and sesame products | |
Lupine and lupine products | |
Molluscs and molluscs products |
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