Bartender Allergen Hack

Are you struggling to design labels that meet the EU’s Food Information Regulations?  Is the need to highlight potential allergens giving you a headache?  World leading label design software, BarTender by Seagull Scientific has a handy hack that will mean your list of ingredients can be created easily and automatically with the allergen’s in bold.  Read on to find out how.

The EU’s Food Information for Consumers Regulation states:

“The allergenic ingredients need to be emphasised using a typeset that clearly distinguishes it from the rest of the ingredients, for example by means of the font, style or background colour. Food businesses can choose what method they want to use to emphasise the 14 allergens on their product label.”

That’s simple enough when you’ve got a few labels to print – but how do you do it when you’ve hundreds of label designs?

How to design labels with Allergen’s highlighted

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Useful links

What needs to appear on a food label

UK Government Food Labelling regulations.

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