Contamination

Physical

Chemical

Allergenic

Bacterial

The 14 allergenic substances covered by legislation are:

1. eggs
2. milk, including lactose
3. fish
4. crustaceans, such as prawns, crabs, crayfish and lobster
5. molluscs such as mussels, whelks, squid, snails or oysters
6. peanuts
7. nuts, namely - almonds, walnuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecan, brazil, macadamia, pistachio
8. sesame
9. cereals containing gluten, namely - wheat, rye, barley, oats
10. soya
11. celery, including celeriac
12. mustard
13. sulphur dioxide/sulphates, where added at a level above 10mg/kg or 10mg/L in the finished product
14. lupin.