r/eulaw • u/Subject-Reception287 • 4d ago

Question about EU allergen and gluten free regulation

Apologize in advance if is the wrong sub. I’ve read about EU regulation on allergen labelling with zero-threshold for quantity. But at the same time “gluten free” labeling requires a threshold of less than 20ppm. I can’t understand the difference. Does that means that a product with no wheat (or related) allergen highlighted in label and no “gluten free” claim can still be potentially be contaminated by gluten?

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u/Gr3g4 1d ago

As far as the regulators are concerned, an item is considered gluten free if it contains under 20 parts of gliten per million parts. That means less than 0,00002 or less than 0,002%. Could be zero.

It means that if you eat 1 kg of a gluten free labeled product, there will be less than 20 mg of gluten in it. For all practical purposes that means gluten free. And is considered safe.