An allergen sheet template is for one dish: the dish's name, its recipe's ingredients, the allergens each ingredient brings from its label, the may-contain notes from cross-contact or a supplier's statement, the date and who checked it. 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 sheets are the working documents; the allergen matrix on this site indexes them into one chart for the counter, free and without an account.
The sheet
Dish, ingredients, allergen per ingredient, may-contain, date, initials. Written from the recipe and the ingredient labels, not from the chef's memory of the sauce. The traceability record on this site holds the labels the sheet reads from.
When a sheet changes
A recipe change or a supplier change rewrites the sheet and re-dates it; the old sheet is kept so the answer given on a date can be shown. A sheet that has not changed since the supplier did is the one that gives a wrong answer with confidence.
The matrix as the index
Forty sheets are forty documents to check at the counter; the matrix is one. The allergen matrix on this site is built from the same recipes and prints the chart the sheets feed. Both are dated together.
In the plan
The allergen hazard's control in the HACCP plan is the sheets and the matrix, current, plus separation and training. ProbeLedger Pro keeps the sheets and the matrix versions with the plan. 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 sheet template
Do I need a sheet for every dish?
Every dish served, including specials and sides; the matrix is the index of them.
Who fills in the sheet?
Whoever writes or changes the recipe, from the labels, with initials and a date.
Is the matrix free?
Yes, without an account.