Back in April I was wondering why Australian wines purchased in Indonesia had labels warning of “Produced with egg and fish products as a processing aid. Some traces may remain”, and why I had not seen the terms on the same wines purchased in the UK.
The answer is that these allergy warnings were introduced by legislation in 2002 for the Australian/NZ markets, what has been harder to track down is why they are still not being used over here.
My suspicion is that it is down to some EU regulation, after an hour or so of googling I was able to confirm this thought.
This summary opinion (from 2005) appears to suggest that there is no evidence of allergic reactions to these products in wine and that without a scientific study there is no reason to add a warning to labels. The only “allergenic” warning required in the EU is for sulphites or SO2 which is found in most wines.
Still, it does seem strange that they have to put on different labels depending on where the wine is being sold.
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Would it break a law if the warnings were on the labels in places where the label is not required? It doesn't seem like it would hurt folks to have the allergy warnings. It would save the companies money. (Oh, that would be logical, though.)
rt, True but we are dealing with the EU here and the large French wine industry - logic not used there.
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