ALLERGENS
1. Cereals containing Gluten
All cereals containing gluten, such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, and kamut, are considered allergens. The list also extends to their hybrid strains and derived products.
2. Crustaceans and products based on crustaceans
Proteins from shrimp, prawns, scampi, crabs, lobsters, and crayfish are considered allergens. It is also necessary to avoid products containing ingredients derived from crustaceans.
3. Eggs and products based on eggs
Eggs are considered allergens whether cooked or raw, and also when present in derived products such as egg pasta, biscuits, cakes, omelets, mayonnaise, creams, breaded foods, casseroles, etc.
4. Fish and fish-based products
Allergy can manifest for all types of fish and derived products, except for fish gelatin used as a carrier for vitamin preparations or as a clarifier in beer and wine.
5. Peanuts and peanut-based products
The main sources of allergens are derived products such as peanut oil, peanut butter, peanut flour, and peanut milk used as ingredients in creams, snacks, nougats, etc.
6. Soy and soy-based products
Allergenic proteins are present in all soy-based products, except for: refined soy oil and fat, natural mixed tocopherols, natural D-alpha tocopherol, natural D-alpha tocopherol acetate, natural D-alpha tocopherol succinate, vegetable oils derived from soy-based phytosterols and phytosterol esters, and vegetable stanol ester produced from soy oil sterols.
7. Milk and milk-based products
Milk and lactose-based products are allergens, except for whey used for the production of alcoholic distillates and lactitol.
8. Tree nuts
This includes almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, pistachios, macadamia nuts, and all their derived products, except for those used for the production of alcoholic distillates.
9. Celery and celery-based products
Celery is an allergen whether present in pieces or in derived products such as soup preparations, sauces, and vegetable concentrates.
10. Mustard and mustard-based products
Mustard is an allergen found in the main ingredients of sauces and condiments, especially mustard.
11. Sesame seeds and sesame seed-based product
Whole seeds are often used in bread preparation, but traces of sesame are also found in some types of flour.
12. Sulfur dioxide and sulfite
Only in concentrations above 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/l expressed as SO2 (used as preservatives) are these found in canned fish products, pickled foods, foods in oil and brine, jams, vinegar, dried mushrooms, soft drinks, and fruit juices.
13. Lupins and lupin-based product
Now present in many vegan foods in the form of roasts, sausages, flours, and similar products that are based on this protein-rich legume.
14. Mollusks and mollusk-based products
Present in dishes based on scallops, razor clams, sea dates, fasolari, garagolo, snails, mussels, murices, oysters, limpets, sea truffles, clams, and derived products.
