Comprehensive landscape of allergen labelling on pre-packed snack foods available in China

IF 1.4 3区农林科学 Q4 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety Pub Date : 2023-12-23 DOI:10.1007/s00003-023-01475-4

Jian Wang, Wenfeng Liu, Yong Wu, Jinyan Gao, Hongbing Chen

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Food allergen labelling is an important tool to reduce the risk of exposure to food allergens, especially for highly processed pre-packed snack foods. In order to understand the current status of allergen labelling on pre-packed snack foods in China, this study conducted a stratified random sampling on 9 major categories of pre-packed snack foods in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. 1497 pre-packed snack foods from 15 pre-packed food sale points were collected for information analysis of allergen labelling. It was found that the prevalence of the allergen labelling and precautionary allergen labelling for pre-packed snack foods was 66.93% and 18.77%, respectively, while the overall unqualified rate of the allergen labelling was 29.14%, with the unqualified rate of micro enterprises being as high as 36.88%. This inspires us to strengthen the food safety management concept of food enterprises, accelerate the establishment of mandatory food allergen labelling and standardized management systems in China, and ultimately better protect the health and rights of consumers.

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中国预包装休闲食品过敏原标签的全面情况

食品过敏原标签是降低接触食品过敏原风险的重要工具，尤其是对于高度加工的预包装休闲食品而言。为了了解中国预包装休闲食品过敏原标签的现状，本研究在江西省南昌市对9大类预包装休闲食品进行了分层随机抽样。从 15 个预包装食品销售点收集了 1497 种预包装休闲食品，对其过敏原标签进行了信息分析。结果发现，预包装休闲食品的过敏原标示率和预防性过敏原标示率分别为66.93%和18.77%，而过敏原标示的总体不合格率为29.14%，其中微型企业的不合格率高达36.88%。这启示我们要强化食品企业的食品安全管理理念，加快建立我国食品过敏原强制标识和规范化管理体系，最终更好地保障消费者的健康权益。

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