An allergen chart PDF is what a kitchen wants behind the counter, and the useful one is printed from the kitchen's own menu with a date on it, not downloaded blank and filled in pen. The Food Standards Agency's allergen guidance, cited below, says only the 14 allergens are required to be declared as allergens by food law: celery, cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites at more than ten parts per million, and tree nuts. The allergen matrix on this site builds the chart from the dishes and their ingredients and prints it to PDF from the browser, free and without an account; the paid product keeps the versions and the date each one was current.
What the chart shows
Rows for the dishes, columns for the 14 allergens, a mark where the allergen is present and a distinct mark where cross-contact is possible, and the date. A chart without a date cannot be shown to be current; a chart without the cross-contact mark hides the hazard the matrix exists to show.
Where the marks come from
The recipe and the ingredient labels, read at the delivery and kept with the traceability record on this site. A supplier change can change an allergen with no change to the dish, so the chart is rebuilt when the delivery changes, not when a customer asks.
Printing it
The matrix prints to PDF from the browser at the size of the menu; a forty-dish menu is a page or two. One copy behind the counter, one in the folder, both replaced together when the menu or a supplier changes.
The PDF as a control
The allergen hazard sits in the HACCP plan and the chart is its control, the source of every answer to a customer's question. ProbeLedger Pro keeps each dated version so the answer given on a date can be shown. FoodDocs lists its Lite plan at $99 per site per month billed monthly or $79 billed annually, and its Standard plan at $199 per site per month, with a free 14-day trial, on its pricing page cited below. ProbeLedger Pro is $49 per month for the whole site.
Questions people ask about allergen chart pdf
Can I use a generic allergen chart?
As a reminder of the 14, yes; as the record for your menu, no, because it does not know your recipes.
Do I need to show the chart to customers?
Allergen information must be available and accurate on request; the chart is how it is provided.
Is the matrix free?
Yes, without an account.