Allergens Courses and Guidance | Seafish

Allergens Courses and Guidance

Seafood business operators must ensure that staff receive appropriate allergens training. Find out what training and guidance is available.



Food Allergens Management training

Seafish has developed a one day remotely delivered training programme for food businesses to help them manage allergens during processing and production. 

This management level, highly participative training programme, incorporates much of the guidance from the Food Standards Agency and is delivered by a Seafish trainer with experience of food manufacturing and the management of allergens in a food production and processing environment.

This programme is available for delivery, subject to demand.

To register your interest in this training course please email onshore@seafish.co.uk

The one-day course will cost £260 per person. UK seafood businesses are eligible for 50% funding support for remotely delivered online courses.

The online invigilated exam consists of 20 multiple-choice questions and five extended answer questions.

This training course leads to a Seafish/REHIS joint award.

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Course Content

  • Understanding allergens
  • Legislation and external scrutiny
  • The recognised allergens
  • Applying HACCP to allergens management
  • Allergen control plans
  • Supplier approval specifications 
  • Preventing cross contamination
  • Managing the allergens list
  • Training
  • Traceability and recall

Prerequisites 

We suggest that learners attending the course have a food hygiene and HACCP qualification or significant experience of HACCP in a food production environment.  We suggest completion of these two programmes: Elementary Food Hygiene and Elementary HACCP.

Allergy awareness training for food handlers in customer facing businesses

Regulations require that food businesses keep and provide appropriate information on allergen content. You must also have controls in place to control them in order to protect their customers and therefore their business.

Your staff should:

  • know the procedures when asked to provide allergen information
  • be trained to accurately handle allergen information requests
  • be able to guarantee that allergen-free meals are served to the right customer
  • know the risks of allergen cross-contamination when handling and preparing foods and how to prevent this.

Since October 2021 foods which are prepacked for direct sale to the consumer must be labelled with any allergenic ingredients. Follow the link below to find out more about allergen labelling. 

Allergy awareness training for food handlers

Allergy awareness training for food handlers is available from Allergy Action UK, the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland.

Follow the links below to their websites for more information:

Further Information

At Seafish, our aim is to create and encourage a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. You can find out more on our Working with us webpage. So, we are also committed to ensuring that our training courses are accessible to as many people as possible by making reasonable adjustments when needed. If you would like to share any learning challenges or accessibility requirements with us before booking a place on a training course, we encourage you to do so. Any information you provide will be treated with the utmost respect and kept confidential. We’re here to support your learning and ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate fully. If you’ve any questions, please email our Onshore Training Team, onshore@seafish.co.uk.

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