a) Involvement of the skin-mucosal tissue signified by hives, itching to flushing, and swollen tissues such as lips, tongues, and uvula; other mucosal tissue can be affected as well from topical exposure and may not be as evident. Luca, the lion who couldn’t eat meat’by Mrs Tersha Kate Cutmore and Mrs Victoria Ward-Fowler. Luca the Lion Who Couldn’t Eat Meat

It is important for food businesses to take steps to avoid cross-contamination in food preparation to protect customers with a food allergy.

Footnotes

The new PPDS food rules provide customers with more information, to make safe food choices. However, it should not replace or prevent consumers from having conversations about their allergy requirements, with the food business. Updated to include information on the autumn programme and variant vaccines, and further clarification of information on revaccination and capillary leak syndrome. Billions, trillions of bacteria live inside of our intestinal tract. Our guts are just replete with things that are not us, but that help break down foods and are the reason that we can eat food and turn them into [nutrients] and stay alive, basically. One theory about the rise of allergies is that over the last 200 years, our diets have gotten dramatically different in terms of what we eat, the types of food we eat, so more processed foods, less fresh fruit and vegetables, different foods. ... We cook differently, we manufacture differently, we grow differently ... which is a problem for the microbiota that have co-evolved with us. Food businesses must inform customers if any products they provide contain any of the 14 allergens as an ingredient. If you can’t avoid cross-contamination in food preparation, you should inform customers that you can’t provide an allergen-free dish.

Eppie the Elephant , written by Livingstone Crouse and illustrated by Steven Brown, is a story about an elephant allergic to peanuts. From 1 October 2021, PPDS food needs to have a label that displays a full ingredients list, with allergenic ingredients emphasised within it.If you fail to act on advice given by the local authority, an improvement notice may be issued. If you do not meet the requirements of this notice, you will be issued with a penalty.