Not PPDS. This is ordinary prepacked food

"Food packed by one business and supplied to another business" is outside PPDS, as is "food that is packaged by another business at a different site to where it is sold". That is ordinary prepacked food, and it carries the fuller prepacked labelling rules instead.

The 14 allergens: celery, cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites above 10ppm, and tree nuts.

Precautionary allergen labelling is not part of the PPDS requirement.

The test is about timing, place and packaging, never about what the food is. The same item can be PPDS on one counter and not on another.

Sources

• GOV.UK: Labelling guidance for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food products
• GOV.UK: Introduction to allergen labelling for PPDS food
• GOV.UK: Find your local council

Guidance, not legal advice. Your local environmental health team has the final word.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown copyright. Source file last reviewed 23 Aug 2026.

This is general guidance, not legal advice, and it decides nothing about a specific product. The food business operator is legally responsible for what appears on the label, always. Software can derive a label from your data; it cannot take on that responsibility, and no tool can certify a product or a business.

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