M&S Allergen Management Insights
This advanced allergen management course is designed for M&S food suppliers want to strengthen real-world control and decision-making. It focuses on how allergen failures occur across systems—and how to prevent them through better risk assessment, management and communication.
Description
Allergen incidents remain one of the leading causes of food recalls, often driven by small, connected failures across supply chain, production, and labelling systems. This course goes beyond compliance to help M&S suppliers understand why allergen issues occur in otherwise well-managed sites—and how to design them out.
Using a practical, systems-based approach, the course explores allergen management as the integration of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication, ensuring risks are fully understood and accurately controlled and communicated.
Key risk areas covered include:
- Raw material and supply chain visibility
- Production scheduling and line segregation
- Cleaning validation and housekeeping
- Packaging and labelling controls
- People, training and food safety culture
Through interactive exercises and real-life scenarios, delegates will analyse how decisions made across departments—often under pressure—can combine to create predictable but preventable allergen incidents. A strong emphasis is placed on challenging assumptions, improving internal communication, and strengthening audit effectiveness.
By the end of the course, delegates will be equipped to develop a more proactive, risk-based allergen management approach aligned with M&S expectations—helping protect consumers, reduce recall risk, and drive operational excellence.
Who Should Attend?
This course is for experienced food industry professionals within M&S supply chains who have a solid foundation in and a responsibility for allergen control. It is ideal for technical, QA, production, hygiene, planning teams at management level, looking to move from compliance to robust, risk-based practice.