STATEMENT
All our buffet menus will have the following Allergens as standard:
Eggs, Fish, Peanuts, Soybeans, Milk, Nuts, Cereals including Gluten, Mustard and Sesame.
If you require us to provide a menu which does not include these items, please let us know at point of order.
Please be aware that due to Trenchers being a catering business, there is always a chance of Trace nuts, caution is advised.
Trenchers Catering is able to offer advice to clients in full compliance with the legislation introduced by the EU on 13th December 2014 (EU FIC) & additional legislation such as Natashas Law.
The legislation is good news for consumers as information about allergens will be made clearer and offered in a more consistent way, enabling clients to make safer food choices.
Clients (or those booking on behalf of clients) should make us aware of dietary requirements, in advance, so that we can provide specific advice, when required. This includes severe intolerance or allergies.
As a buffet catering business, there is no requirement under the legislation for us to individually label foods, but we will provide general advice about the products we use at the point of supply. It remains clients responsibility to pass this information on to consumers (people who actually eat our food).
In the legislation there are fourteen major allergens identified:
Allergen
Celery
Cereals containing gluten
Crustaceans
Eggs
Fish
Lupin
Milk
Molluscs
Mustard
Nuts
Peanuts
Sesame seeds
Soya
Sulphur dioxide (sulphates)
Brief Description
Stalks, leaves and seeds and the root called celeriac.
Found in foods containing flour.
Crab, lobster, prawn and scampi.
Found in cakes, mayonnaise, sauces and pastries.
Fish can be in sauces, relishes, dressings and pastes.
Can be used in some types of bread and pastries.
A common ingredient in butter, cheese, cream and yogurt.
Includes mussels, land snails, squid and whelks.
Liquid mustard, mustard powder and mustard seeds.
Nuts grown on trees.
Known as groundnuts often used as an ingredient.
Often found in bread, houmous and oils
.
Often found in bean curd and is a staple ingredient in oriental food.
Often used in dried raisins, apricots and prunes (and other items).
If you have asthma, you have a higher risk of developing a reaction to sulphur dioxide.
Will Our Food Contain This Item
We no longer use the raw salad item and it is not an ingredient in any product.
All of our bread and cakes contain gluten. If you have a gluten allergy, please tell us and we will supply gluten free products.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
We do not use this food group.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
We can exclude this item from your food, but we DO NOT OPERATE IN A NUT FREE ENVIRONMENT.
We can exclude this item from your food, but we DO NOT OPERATE IN A PEANUT FREE ENVIRONMENT.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
Please tell us if you have an allergy to this group, so that we can exclude these items from your buffet.
