The new FSA allergen labelling rules, in plain English

A small but important change to allergen disclosure on prepacked-for-direct-sale food kicks in on 1 October 2026. Producers selling at farm gates, markets, and platforms like ours will need to declare the 14 named allergens on every label, in the same form as the supermarkets do today.

This is good news. The current rules let small producers tuck allergen info into a sign next to the till; in practice that means a customer with a dairy allergy can pick up a quiche and walk out without ever knowing what’s in it. The new rules close that gap.

For stalls already on Parish Larder, this is mostly a formatting exercise. Our product editor has a 14-allergen panel built in, and any product flagged as containing one of the high-risk allergens already auto-generates a "Contains" warning on the public page. The new rules just mean that warning needs to also be on the physical label your customer takes home.

If you’re an existing merchant, we’re publishing a label-template generator alongside the May release that pulls your product data and produces a print-ready FSA-compliant sticker. You won’t need to redesign your packaging; you’ll need to add a printer.