Allergy alerts by allergen

UK law requires 14 allergens to be declared on food labels. When one is missing or labelled wrongly, the Food Standards Agency issues an allergy alert. Here is every alert since 2018, grouped by allergen.

Milk 270
Gluten 171
Soya 112
Nuts 111
Peanuts 94
Egg 87
Mustard 69
Sulphites 53
Sesame 42
Fish 26
Crustaceans 24
Celery 22
Molluscs 13
Lupin 4

One alert can involve several allergens, so the numbers add up to more than the number of alerts.