Allergen Label Software UK: Generate Natasha's Law Compliant Labels (2026)

What Natasha's Law requires on every label

Under Natasha's Law (the Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019), every PPDS product must display:

1. The name of the food
2. A full ingredients list in descending order by weight
3. All 14 major allergens highlighted — typically in bold — wherever they appear in the ingredients list

What a compliant label looks like

Here's an example of a Natasha's Law compliant label for a simple product:

The allergens (Eggs, Milk, and any others present) must be emphasised relative to the rest of the ingredients list — bold is the standard approach.

The problem with manual label creation

Many small food businesses still create labels in Word, Canva or Excel. This creates several risks:

• Allergen data has to be manually entered for every product — and manually updated if a recipe changes
• Ingredients must be ordered by weight, which requires manual calculation
• If a supplier changes a formulation, you may not know to update your labels
• There's no audit trail — if a customer has a reaction, you can't prove your label was accurate at the time of sale

How allergen label software works

Purpose-built allergen label software connects your ingredient library to your label output. The workflow is:

1. Add ingredients to your library with their allergen data and cost per unit
2. Build recipes using those ingredients — allergens are calculated automatically
3. Design a label template once (product name, ingredients, allergens, logo, best before, storage)
4. Print labels directly from the recipe — the ingredients list and allergen highlighting are generated automatically

When a recipe changes, the label updates. When an ingredient's allergen data changes, every recipe and label that uses it updates. No manual intervention required.

FoodCore's label designer

FoodCore includes a drag-and-drop label designer with pre-built blocks for every Natasha's Law requirement: product name, ingredients list (auto-generated from recipe, allergens in bold), allergen summary, nutrition table, best before, use by, storage instructions, country of origin and business info.

Labels print directly to PDF at any standard label size (100×70mm, 100×50mm, A4 sheet and more). You can maintain multiple templates — one for retail packaging, one for market stall labels, one for catering packs.

Allergen label software vs a label printer

A label printer is hardware. Allergen label software is the system that generates the correct content for that printer. You need both — but the software is where compliance lives. A label printer that prints the wrong allergen information is worse than no label at all.

Pricing

FoodCore starts from £55/month with no per-label fees and no limits on the number of products or templates. For a business printing labels daily, that's a fraction of the cost of a single compliance incident.