What does Natasha's Law require on labels for food prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) in the UK, and which 14 allergens must be emphasised?

Approach. I couldn't find the UK PPDS amendment ("Natasha's Law") itself in the datasets I can search. I did find Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on food information to consumers (FIC), whose provisions the UK rules build on, and read Article 9 (mandatory particulars), Article 21 (allergen emphasis), Article 44 (non-prepacked and PPDS food) and Annex II (the 14 allergens) in the 2011 enacted text. For the UK requirements I searched only official sources: legislation.gov.uk, the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland and local-authority guidance. Those findings come from search-result snippets, not the full pages.

What Natasha's Law requires for PPDS food

• What it is: the Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/1218). It came into force on 1 October 2021 and added a new regulation 5A. That regulation requires a food business selling PPDS food to put the list of ingredients (the Article 9(1)(b) particular) directly on the package or on a label attached to it (legislation.gov.uk, search snippet).
• What the label must show (FSA and local-authority guidance, search snippets):
  1. the name of the food
  2. a full ingredients list
  3. any of the 14 regulated allergens emphasised within that list, for example in bold, capitals, a contrasting colour or underlining (FSA allergen guidance; Manchester City Council).
• What counts as PPDS: food that is made and packed on the same site where it is sold, and is already in its packaging before the customer orders or picks it. The guidance example is a sandwich bar that makes and wraps sandwiches on site and sells them from a display or the counter (Manchester City Council).
• Why a national rule was needed: under FIC Article 44, PPDS food only had to give allergen information. Other particulars, such as the name and the ingredients list, were mandatory only if national measures required them, and those measures could set how the information is presented ^[1]. Natasha's Law is the UK's use of that option. Article 9(1)(a) and (b) are the name of the food and the list of ingredients ^[2].
• Other UK nations: I only checked the England instrument. Food Standards Scotland publishes its own PPDS allergen labelling Q&A (FSS).

How allergens must be emphasised (FIC Article 21)

• Each allergen must appear in the ingredients list, clearly referring to its Annex II name.
• That name must be set in a typeface that clearly stands out from the rest of the list, "for example by means of the font, style or background colour."
• If several ingredients come from the same allergen, the label must make this clear for each one.
• Labelling the allergen is not required where the name of the food clearly refers to it ^[3].

The 14 allergens (Annex II)

All entries below cover "and products thereof" except sulphur dioxide and sulphites, which have a concentration threshold. Some entries also carry exemptions.

#	Allergen	Scope and exemptions
1	Cereals containing gluten	Wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, kamut or their hybridised strains. Exempt: wheat-based glucose syrups and maltodextrins, barley glucose syrups, cereals used for alcoholic distillates
2	Crustaceans
3	Eggs
4	Fish	Exempt: fish gelatine used as a vitamin or carotenoid carrier; fish gelatine or isinglass used to fine beer and wine
5	Peanuts
6	Soybeans	Exempt: fully refined soybean oil and fat, certain natural tocopherols, phytosterols and their esters, plant stanol ester
7	Milk (including lactose)	Exempt: whey used for alcoholic distillates, lactitol
8	Nuts	Almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, pistachios, macadamia/Queensland nuts. Exempt: nuts used for alcoholic distillates
9	Celery
10	Mustard
11	Sesame seeds
12	Sulphur dioxide and sulphites	Only above 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/litre as total SO₂, as ready for consumption or reconstituted
13	Lupin
14	Molluscs

All Annex II details in this table are from ^[3][4].

The FSA's guidance names the same 14 allergens (FSA, search snippet). The Annex II wording and exemptions above come from the EU text as enacted in 2011, not from the GB assimilated version on legislation.gov.uk, which I did not open. I can check the GB text next if useful.

Sources:

• legislation.gov.uk: SI 2019/1218
• FSA: Allergen guidance for food businesses
• Manchester City Council: PPDS food labelling requirements
• Food Standards Scotland: PPDS Allergen Labelling Q&A