Food safety

⚠️ Allergen labelling: the 14, and what you must declare

Under EU 1169/2011 you must declare 14 allergens — including for loose food in Denmark. How to stay accurate.

This is general guidance. Food-safety rules can change — always verify the current requirements with your national food-safety authority ↗. The operator remains responsible for compliance; we accept no liability for this information.

Giving accurate allergen information is a legal duty and a trust builder. Across the EU, allergens must be declared whenever they’re used as an ingredient or processing aid. In Denmark this applies to loose (non-prepacked) food too — including restaurant dishes — and oral information is only allowed if a written record is available at all times.

The 14 allergens to declare

Cereals containing gluten · crustaceans · eggs · fish · peanuts · soybeans · milk · tree nuts · celery · mustard · sesame · sulphur dioxide/sulphites (>10 mg/kg) · lupin · molluscs.

Where it goes wrong

Cross-contamination in open kitchens and on buffets
Recipe or supplier changes that don’t reach the allergen list
"May contain" used as a blanket disclaimer instead of a real assessment
Staff giving allergen answers with no written source to back them

Precautionary "may contain" labelling should follow a real risk assessment, and list only allergens realistically present — not a generic catch-all.

MiniAgent builds allergens from an ingredient → dish model: each ingredient carries its allergen tags, a dish inherits the union, and the operator confirms it. You author the truth; the app only drafts. The dish × 14 matrix shows in each worker’s language and prints for the counter.

EU Regulation 1169/2011; DK Food Information Order (LIV). The operator is responsible for the declared information.