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 […]
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 […]
Friday, September 14th, 2018
in Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice Buying Custom Printed Labels need not be difficult. Here at Positive ID Labels we have years of experience. We are happy to guide you through the process from start to finish. We deal with large and small customers alike. If this is your “first rodeo”, we are here to help you through the label buying […]
Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
in Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Regulations Alcoholic Drink Labelling is governed by a set of guidelines established by the UK government and the EU. EU regulations for your labels can be found in the EU Food Information to Consumers (aka EU FIC) or Food Information Regulations (FIR). These regulations cover all aspects of food labelling and some of those regulations overlap […]
Friday, December 1st, 2017
in Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Thermal Printing The fundamental printing technology for either type of thermal printing is the same. Both use heat in the print head to create an image on the material being printed. Thermal transfer printing uses ribbons that transfer pigment onto the material being printed. This is the equivalent of ink. Direct Thermal printing has a pigment system […]
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
in PID Labelling Advice, Thermal Printing Direct Thermal Printer Labels use a well-established technology common in till receipt printers, older fax machines and point of sale terminals. The printing system works by activating a pigment present in the paper rolls used in the printer. Direct Thermal printer labels work by having the pigment ‘cure’ and change colour when heat is applied. […]
Thursday, August 10th, 2017
in Allergy Labels, EU, Label Guides, PID Labelling Advice, Regulations, Sandwich Labelling Sandwich Labelling Regulations is a pretty tedious topic so if you want to cut straight to the chase, feel free to call us on 01332 864895 during office hours for advice and help setting up a sandwich labelling system. Alternatively, fill in the form at the bottom of this article and we will call you […]