Industries
Natasha’s Law for your kind of business
Each page uses the products, compound ingredients and label formats that trade actually handles — not a generic article with the business name swapped.
Reviewed against official guidance.SourcesNot legal advice.
- BakeriesA bakery counter usually holds three kinds of product at once: things boxed up before anyone chooses them, things sliced…
- Home bakersBaking from a registered home kitchen does not exempt you. If you pack a product before the customer chooses it — a box …
- CafésThe sandwiches you make at eight for the lunch rush need labels. The one you build while a customer waits does not. Most…
- CaterersCatering has two labelling problems at once. Individual boxes and packs need labels like anyone else’s — and clients inc…
- Delis & farm shopsA deli counter is the clearest illustration of why PPDS is about food rather than businesses. The same cheese, weighed a…
- Market stallsThe FSA wrote guidance specifically for mobile sellers, and it settles the question most stallholders ask: food you pack…
- Meal prepMeal prep is labelling on a treadmill. Everything is packed before it is chosen, so everything needs a label — and the m…
- ButchersIf you pack sausages, burgers or marinated cuts on your premises before the customer picks them, those packs are PPDS. T…
- PubsA pub kitchen often mixes made-to-order plates with food packed before service. Anything sealed on your premises before …
- HotelsHotel breakfast and grab-and-go ranges often pack food before guests choose it. Those packs need the name of the food an…
- Farm shopsIf your farm shop packs food on site before customers choose it — traybakes, pies, sandwiches, sealed salads — those pac…
- FishmongersFish on an open slab is loose food. Fishcakes, pâtés, dressed crab and sauce pots packed before the customer chooses the…
- SchoolsA school meal served on a plate is not PPDS. A sandwich, pasta pot or cake in a bag that pupils pick up already packed i…
- Care homesMeals plated for a resident are not PPDS. Snacks, cakes and sandwiches packed before someone chooses them — including it…
- Ghost kitchensA delivery-only kitchen that packs food before the courier collects it is still packing PPDS food when that food was sea…
- Sandwich shopsA sandwich made in the morning, wrapped, and put in the fridge for customers to choose is PPDS. The label needs the name…
- Ice cream parloursA scoop in a cone, served to order, is not PPDS. A tub, an ice cream sandwich or a slice of cake packed before the custo…
- TakeawaysA meal cooked for the order in front of you is not PPDS. Pots of sauce, desserts, naan you bag before service, and any i…
- NurseriesLunch served to a child in your care is not a PPDS product. Snacks, cakes and party bags you pack before a parent choose…
- RestaurantsFood plated in the kitchen for the table is not PPDS. Cheesecakes in the fridge already sliced and boxed, sauce pots, an…
- Wedding caterersA plated wedding breakfast is not PPDS. Favour boxes, boxed cake slices and late-night snacks packed before guests pick …
- Sushi barsA sushi box assembled and lidded before the customer chooses it is PPDS. Rice and nori are not the allergens. Fish, sesa…
- Forecourt shopsA petrol-station kitchen that packs sandwiches, pastries and pots before they go into the cabinet is making PPDS food. M…