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Food and drink warnings

You must show an appropriate warning on the label if your food contains certain ingredients.

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Ingredient Wording you must use
Allura red (E129) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’
Aspartame (E951) ‘Contains a source of phenylalanine’ if you name aspartame in the ingredients list, or ‘Contains aspartame (a source of phenylalanine)’ if you use the E number instead of the name in the ingredients list
Caffeine over 150 mg/l ‘Not suitable for children, pregnant women and persons sensitive to caffeine’ (find out more about the labelling requirements for caffeine in the caffeine section of the food labelling guidance)
Carmoisine (E122) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’
Liquorice ‘Contains liquorice’ (find out if you need extra wording for confectionery or alcohol containing liquorice in the liquorice section of the food labelling guidance)
Plant sterols and stanols Find out about the labelling requirements for added phytosterols, phytosterol esters, phytostanols or phytostanol esters in the plant sterols and stanols section of the food labelling guidance
Polyols over 10% ‘Excessive consumption may cause a laxative effect’
Ponceau 4R (E124) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’
Quinoline yellow (E104) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’
Raw milk ‘This milk has not been heat-treated and may therefore contain organisms harmful to health’
Skimmed milk with non-milk fat There’s no fixed wording, but you must show a warning that the product is unfit or not to be used for babies.
Sulphur dioxide over 10mg/l ‘Contains sulphur dioxide (or sulphites/sulfites)’
Sunset yellow (E110) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’
Sweeteners ‘With sweetener(s)’
Sweeteners and sugar ‘With sugar and sweetener(s)’
Tartrazine (E102) ‘May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children’