Allergen Aware Month is a pledge from all types of food and beverage businesses to re-boot their allergen awareness, remind staff to be compliant with the law, refresh their training and generally get all employees re-focussed and alert to this essential aspect of working in catering and hospitality.

Allergen Accreditation have prepared some useful resources to support businesses. This year's resource pack contains:

• PPDS (Natasha's Law) The Refresher
• Training- about what training is appropriate, available as well as the link to the updated (June 2020) FSA's free online training for everyone
• Useful links- free resources to support your needs including allergen and labelling software support
• About the Anaphylaxis Campaign- the trusted source for allergen factsheets and more
• Remember when designing your menus- use words to describe hidden/ unexpected allergens
• Digital support- tech support is well overdue for any business, and this gets you started as well as offers the ability to include calorie/ nutrition information that you may need to do in 2022
• Precautionary Allergen Labelling (PAL) There's a consultation out now and you are invited to take part, with the Food Standards Agency
• The OneMcPeakeChallenge - will raise awareness and funds to support NARF and their quest to develop immunotherapy for allergy sufferers
• Primary Allergen Authority Scheme (PAAS) Where group businesses take ownership of the Allergen Accreditation scheme and develop it internally- a new era