Allergen themes and learnings
23 July 2026New insight that captures industry knowledge to bring greater transparency to allergen management.
We believe that a better understanding of what is driving allergen alerts and incidents can support industry to prioritise and tackle the bigger challenges, allowing for safer allergen management.
FSA data has been collated to demonstrate the variations and trends across the 14 major allergens (2024-YTD 26) to support allergen management decisions.
IGD has also been working with a cross-industry team to share anonymous insight into the learnings and root cause analysis behind recent industry allergen recalls.
The top areas driving allergen incidents are:
Human error
Packaging & labelling
Equipment & hygiene challenges
This guidance contains new insight that aims to bring greater transparency to both the key recall themes and capture the valuable industry knowledge that helps prevent future incidents.
IGD are committed to strengthening allergen management and want to pool knowledge from wider industry.
Help us build valuable insight to support safer allergen management by sharing the below with us:
Key allergen incident issues
Lessons learned
Email [email protected] to anonymously share your insight
This information will be added into learnings as the document is updated twice per year.