Allergen Label Maker: PPDS

Make UK PPDS allergen labels (Natasha's Law) on your phone, with the 14 allergens in bold, and print them on a Bluetooth thermal printer or A4 sticker sheets.

Made for home bakers, market stalls, food vans, farm shops and small cafés that pack food before it is ordered and need a full ingredients list on every pack.

HOW IT WORKS
• Add your product and its ingredients, heaviest first. Pick from common ingredients or your own library.
• The app suggests allergens from the ingredient names, for example butter (milk), tahini (sesame) or semolina (wheat). You confirm or reject each one, so nothing goes on a label without your say.
• Allergens are set in bold every time they appear, and the cereal or nut is named (wheat, barley, almonds, walnuts), as the FSA guidance asks.
• For bought ingredients like chocolate or stock cubes, add what they contain from their own pack and the allergens inside are picked up too.
• Print, with the same layout you see on screen.

ON EVERY LABEL
• Name of the food
• "Ingredients:" list with allergens in bold
• Optional "Allergens in bold." note
• May contain line, naming each allergen
• Use by or best before date, worked out from your shelf life
• Batch code
• Storage line, net weight and an extra line of your own
• Your business name and address

TEXT SIZE YOU CAN TRUST
Food law sets a minimum x-height of 1.2 mm (0.9 mm for small packs). The app measures its own font and never prints label text below that. On fixed size labels the text shrinks to fit down to the minimum, and the app tells you if the label is too small.

PRINT YOUR WAY
• Bluetooth thermal printers: most portable 58mm ESC/POS receipt and label printers. Works with continuous label rolls and die cut rolls, with a cutter or tear off.
• A4 sticker sheets: a print ready PDF for any printer, in common sizes (fits L7163, L7160, L7161, L7159, L7162, L7173, L7165 and L7166 sheets). Start part way down a used sheet, print outlines for a test and nudge the alignment.

FREE
• All label features, allergen checks and printing
• Up to 5 saved products and your own ingredient library
• Thermal printing on 58mm printers
• A4 sheets with 14 labels per sheet

PRO, PAY ONCE OR YEARLY
Choose a yearly plan (with a free trial for new subscribers) or a lifetime unlock. Both unlock the same features:
• Unlimited saved products
• Your logo on every label
• All 8 sticker sheet sizes, from 6 to 24 labels a sheet
• Batch log of every print run (product, batch code, date mark, number of labels) with CSV export
• 80mm thermal printers

Pay once or yearly. No weekly plans. Prices are shown in full before you buy, the yearly plan can be cancelled any time in Google Play, and you can move from yearly to lifetime whenever you like. Works offline and needs no account. Your recipes stay on your phone.

LABEL RULES BUILT IN
A plain summary of the Food Standards Agency PPDS guidance is in the app, with links to the full guidance.

PLEASE NOTE
You are responsible for the accuracy of your labels. The app lays labels out and suggests allergens as a prompt, but it does not know your recipes or your kitchen. Check every ingredient and allergen against your recipe and your suppliers' labels, and follow current FSA guidance.

Questions or a printer that won't work? Email support@zarkon.co.uk

Recent changes:
First release. Make UK PPDS allergen labels with the 14 allergens in bold, and print them on a Bluetooth thermal printer or A4 sticker sheets.