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Bold or otherwise emphasised words in an ingredients list, marking allergens.
Also known as: Bold allergen text, Allergen highlighting, Ingredients emphasis
In British and European labelling, the required allergen marking is not a box or a symbol but emphasis within the ingredients list itself: the allergen is printed in bold, or otherwise distinguished by type, capitals or colour. A reader scanning for a separate allergy panel can therefore miss the only allergen information the law requires. Statements such as 'may contain' sit outside the requirement and are voluntary, which is why their absence proves nothing.
Marks a regulated allergen by emphasising it within the ingredients list itself — in bold, in capitals, in colour or in a different type — rather than by a separate box or symbol.
United Kingdom and European Union · Contexts: Packaging
Is easily missed by a reader looking for an allergy panel, because the required marking is inside the small print rather than beside it.
Anybody managing a food allergy should follow clinical and national food-standards advice. This record describes how the marking works and is not guidance on managing allergy.
Contexts: Packaging
Is separate from precautionary statements such as 'may contain', which are voluntary and unregulated in wording — so their absence is not evidence that cross-contamination has been ruled out.
United Kingdom and European Union · Contexts: Packaging
One or more words set in heavier type within a continuous line of smaller text, distinguished by weight or by capitals rather than by any surrounding shape.
Both address what a food contains and who it is unsafe for.