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A free booklet has been designed to support the All about Allergens online training.
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A free checklist to help make sure your business is food allergy aware.
A food allergen menu matrix is a table outlining the common food allergen ingredients in all your menu items.
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Standardised recipes are recipes that everyone follows exactly, no matter who is cooking.
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This tool provides a list of alternative ingredients that can be substituted for allergen containing ingredients.
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To undertake a comprehensive audit to assess food safety protocols and procedures regarding food allergy management.
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Food allergy management audit tool for Residential Care
A useful tool to help communicate residents’ food allergies and can also be used as a final check when serving meals.
Resources for dietitians
The food allergy and intolerance menu assessment tool for dietitians has been developed in partnership with Dietitians Australia (DA). This resource is freely available to DA and ASCIA member dietitians from the member’s section of both the DA and ASCIA websites.
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Food allergy and intolerance menu assessment tool
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Provides practical strategies to improve the nutrition and meal experience for people living in aged care.
These cards help you to identify other names for common food allergens as well as foods which are most likely to contain the food allergen.
Information about the Food Standards Code and your responsibilities as a food service provider is available from the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) website.
In Australia, compliance with the Code for all foods is monitored by authorities in the states and territories. Contact details for enforcement agencies are available.
A food recall is action taken to remove unsafe food from distribution, sale and consumption. Be alerted by subscribing to FSANZ food recalls
Provides different sectors in the community with links to best practice food allergen resources and key messages.
A food allergy awareness project supported by
The National Allergy Council is a progression of the National Allergy Strategy and remains a partnership between the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia (A&AA), as the leading medical and patient support organisations for allergy in Australia.
www.nationalallergystrategy.org.au
This project received funding from the Australian Government Department of Health.
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