British Retail Consortium (BRC) guidance on allergen labelling contains an endorsement from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), applauding the BRC for its "efforts to achieve greater consistency in allergen labelling and interpretation of the new provisions". Whoever drafted the FSA statement could not have read the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) draft guide to compliance, due for final publication later this year, which it has already said will change very little from the draft. Under the heading 'Allergen listing', the DEFRA guidance says it will not be necessary to show the word 'milk' after well-known dairy products such as cheese, butter, cream and yogurt, even when these are listed as ingredients in composite foods. However, the BRC guidance stipulates that the word milk 'will' be included after dairy ingredients in the list.
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