Monday, January 27th, 2020
in Allergy Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, New Product, PID Labelling Advice, Regulations, Sandwich Labelling Positive ID Labels has developed a multisite allergen labelling system for food businesses operating multiple outlets. This system has been developed for a local bakery, keen to ensure their labelling meets the legal requirements in advance of the new law coming into effect. The pilot business for the multisite allergen labelling system has a head […]
Friday, December 6th, 2019
in Allergy Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice Positive ID Labels can offer you a range of solutions to ensure you fulfil Natasha’s law: Printer – desktop, industrial or high speed industrial printers with printer software for your labels Labels – printed to order with your brand design to any specification you want Data Management Software – Nutridata LiteTM to ensure the data […]
Monday, October 7th, 2019
in Food Labelling, Label Guides, Sandwich Labelling A “QUID Declaration” is the name given to a scheme of quantitatively declaring ingredients for a food product. QUID stands for Quantitative Ingredient Declaration. The scheme or method is prescribed very clearly and is easy to use once you undertand the process. The QUID Declaration is always incorporated into the Ingredient Declaration (a mandatory declaration […]
Tuesday, June 11th, 2019
in Allergy Labels, Best Before Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, Regulations NOTE: Some of the information below may be inaccurate as of 01/01/2021 (post Brexit) – and is in review. Vitamin Labelling Regulations exist to protect consumers from false or unscrupulous marketing. In this day with so many false products being flouted to all and sunder, regulations are more important than ever to protect consumers. The internet […]
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
in Allergy Labels, Deli Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Pre-Printed Labels, Regulations, Sandwich Labelling, Thermal Printing Food Labelling Rules for Small Food Business. A presentation by Positive ID Labels. Transcript (See disclaimer below) EU Food Labelling Regulations are very complicated and there are lots of them. The first question we have to ask is do we even need to label the food? If you are selling food pre-packaged or prepared for […]
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
in Deli Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Pre-Printed Labels, Regulations, Sandwich Labelling, Thermal Printing Having full blown colour traffic light labelling on your sandwich labels is beyond the economic reach of most small sandwich producers. Here at Positive ID Labels, we have figured out a way of achieving the same result at a fraction of the cost. Call us on 01332 864895 to discuss our traffic light labelling trick! […]
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
in Allergy Labels, Deli Labels, Food Labelling, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Pre-Printed Labels, Sandwich Labelling, Thermal Printing The quick answer to whether we need nutrition traffic lights on sandwich labels is “no”, well not yet anyway! Despite all the shenanigans of Brexit, the Local Government Association (LGA)* has come out to say that it believes traffic light nutrition labelling should be mandatory on convenience foods such as sandwiches, according to an article […]
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
in EU, Food Labelling, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Regulations You may need to convert sodium to salt for a food label to meet the EU regulations. It is not lawful to convey sodium content alone and consumers should not be expected to do the calculations in their head! In fact, you may only convey information as “Salt” – you are no longer allowed to […]
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
in Food Labelling, Label Guides, New Product, News, PID Labelling Advice, Regulations Free-range eggs are being sold with new free-range egg stickers explaining that birds have been housed temporarily for their welfare. This is as a result of the bio-security measures implemented across the UK for the birds’ welfare. Avian Flu has been spreading across Europe and arrived in Britain in December. A number of outbreaks have […]
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
in EU, Food Labelling, Label Guides, New Product, News, Politics, Regulations You can buy labels now by clicking here Bird flu labelling will be required from 28th February and the Free Range Egg sector is bracing itself for a major headache. The outbreak of H5N8 avian flu across the continent lead to precautionary measures being taken by DEFRA which included a temporary housing order on free […]