The Food Costing Toolkit helps you tag ingredients, surface allergens on saved products, and keep a reference list appropriate to your region. It is a practical aid, not regulatory advice.
This page explains what the toolkit's allergen features do, where they stop, and what you need to do yourself to sell food safely and legally.
1. About this page
Price It Right's Food Costing Toolkit includes allergen features: a per-ingredient tag column on the Master tab, a pre-populated reference list that matches the major allergens you must declare in your region, and automatic aggregation of allergens across every recipe you save to the Catalogue.
This page explains what those features are — and what they are not. They are there to help you remember, tag, and surface allergen information for your own products. They do not replace the work you need to do to comply with food safety law in your region.
2. Your responsibilities
When you sell food — whether at a market stall, through a delivery app, or from your own kitchen — you are solely responsible for:
- Verifying current allergen requirements with your local food safety authority (see the table below)
- Tagging every ingredient accurately in the Allergens column on the Master tab
- Declaring allergens correctly and visibly on every product you sell, in the format your regulator requires
- Keeping records appropriate to your business — batch logs, ingredient provenance, cross-contamination controls
The toolkit surfaces what you tell it. If you miss an allergen on an ingredient, the toolkit will not catch it for you.
3. The reference lists — what they are, what they aren't
The pre-populated allergen list on the Master tab is a snapshot. It shows the allergens your region's regulator currently requires businesses to declare, verified on the date stamped inside the toolkit.
Regulations change. A new allergen gets added — sesame was added to US law in 2023 under the FASTER Act, for example. An existing definition gets tightened. We update the reference lists with each toolkit release, but your copy of the sheet only reflects the verified date shown in the cell note. Treat the list as a starting point and check at least once a year — and always before launching a new product line or selling into a new market.
If you switch locale using Apply Locale on the Master tab, the reference list resets to that region's default. You can also edit the list in place any time.
4. Your local food safety authority
Start with your national regulator. Their site has the current list of declarable allergens, the required declaration format, and guidance for your type of business.
5. What the toolkit does not do
The Food Costing Toolkit is a pricing and costing tool. Its allergen features are a reminder system, not a compliance system. It does not:
- Validate your declarations — you are responsible for checking every product label and menu entry yourself
- Assess cross-contamination risk in your kitchen or production space
- Generate "may contain" statements — those depend on your specific premises, shared equipment, and workflow
- Cover labelling format requirements such as font size, contrast, or placement on pre-packed for direct sale items
- Substitute for food hygiene training, Natasha's Law training, or equivalent certification in your region
If you need any of the above, your local authority or a qualified food safety consultant is the right place to go.
6. No warranty and limitation of liability
The allergen reference lists and the toolkit as a whole are provided as-is, without warranty of any kind. Price It Right accepts no liability for allergen incidents, mis-declarations, customer reactions, or regulatory action arising from use of the toolkit.
This disclaimer sits alongside the broader limitation of liability in our Terms & Conditions, which apply to every purchase.
7. Spot an error? Let us know
If you see a stale entry in the pre-populated reference lists — an allergen that's missing, an authority whose name or website has changed, a regulation that's been updated — tell us. We'll fix it in the next toolkit release so every future customer gets the corrected list.
Head to our contact page and send us the details.