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tarting in October, British shoppers can expect to see far more detailed ingredient information carried on all the pre-packed food they buy – be that sandwiches from their highstreet delis, fresh pizzas from major supermarkets, even small packets of specialist sweets from family-owned local shops. The most common reason for food recalls now is because of issues around allergens. Every food and drink business will be required to list every single ingredient used in what the industry calls ‘prepacked for direct sale’ (PPDS) items
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Every food and drink business list every single ingredient used in calls ‘pre-packed for direct sale’ (PP importantly, they will also have any one of 14 core allergenic ingr contain, such as molluscs, gluten, PPDS technically covers any fo aged, so that the contents canno being sold to the customer. Sesame, of course, was at the UK’s highest profile cases of trag in recent years, when in 2016, 1 Ednan-Laperouse died after unk baguette which had been made w Her devastated family – and oth
