Allergen Policy
At Wessex Mill we produce all our products with the utmost care to ensure they are safe for you to enjoy. Parts of the Wessex Mill range is especially designed to cater for allergen-aware diets. As such we carry out extensive risk assessment and/or testing regarding the following allergens:
Nuts
Doves Farm Foods Ltd is a nut free site. This term is used to indicate that all nuts (both tree nuts and peanuts) are strictly prohibited in the entire area of land occupied by the business and under our control, including car park, canteen and factory offices. This means there are no nuts or nut-containing products on site. Whilst we do not test raw ingredients or finished products for traces of nuts, we do carry out a full risk assessment of our suppliers.
The exception to this applies to certain Wessex Mill products where we test raw materials or finished products specifically for peanuts. See Other Allergens below for more details.
Other allergens
We carry out a full risk assessment for raw materials with regards to all 14 recognised allergens listed in the Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU).
These allergens are:
- Cereals containing gluten; namely wheat (such as spelt and khorasan wheat), rye, barley, oats
- Crustaceans; for example prawns, crabs, lobster, crayfish
- Eggs
- Fish
- Peanuts
- Soybeans
- Milk (including lactose)
- Nuts; namely almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, Brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia (or Queensland) nuts
- Celery (including celeriac)
- Mustard
- Sesame
- Sulphur dioxide/sulphites
- Lupin, which includes lupin seeds and flour
- Mollusc for example clams, mussels, whelks, oysters, snails and squid