To think Cadburys have done a shit job of labelling which Roses Chocolates contain nuts

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

Almond Caramel bite - CONTAINS MILK, SOYA

Brazilian Darkness - CONTAINS MILK, SOYA

No mention of nuts on either wrappers, but there is a nut warning on the other chocolates (Hazel whirl)

AIBU to think this is very irresponsible?

I have had a reply from the anaphylaxis campaign
There is no almond in the almond caramel bite, apparently it is artificial almond, they are looking into the brazil nut.

Gamerwidow- those of us who grew up before mandatory labelling tend to keep on eating all the stuff we ate with no problems before the labelling kicked in, probably still rely less on labelling than younger people.

There is no almond in the almond caramel bite

That's hardly surprising. There's very little chocolate in the chocolate :(

This biggest problem with chocolates like this is that they ALL contain nut traces and cross contamination is wide spread.
Mainly because of 'reworked' chocolate. In between making different types of chocolate they clean the lines by pushing chocolate through to pick up the loose bits and then put the chocolate back in the 'pot' at the start and then make the next thousand different chocolate type.

For that reason we have advised our son to avoid all loose chocolates like roses, quality street, celebrations as its simply not worth the risk.

My biggest problem with Cadburys is their tax-dodging

I think contamination is much less of an issue than it used to be, and the dangers are vastly overstated.

Twenty or thirty years ago I regularly had reactions to trace peanut allergen in foods. In the last ten years I don't think I've had a single one - I avoid foods with peanut in obviously but I don't avoid foods with other nuts or those marked "may contain ..."

Complete avoidance is probably necessary for people with allergies to both peanuts and tree nuts, but many people are only allergic to a single type of nut. I can and do eat tree nuts, even though I have a very serious peanut allergy. I find that as long as labelling is appropriate, peanut is extremely easy to avoid (unlike mustard, to which I am also allergic, which is a very difficult allergen to avoid!)

I think I might be able to help solve this labeling puzzle. I accidentally started eating the Almond Caramel bite thinking it was the fudge (very similar texture) Once I realised I spat it out. However I was expecting the hives the next day, but nothing happened. I too was puzzled at the lack of 'NUTS' message on the individual wrapper. So I looked at the ingredients and noticed the only nuts are HAZEL nuts. It is likely that Cadburys are using a almond flavorings and therefore doesn't contain any nuts to declare. Anyway here is the list:
Milk, sugar, glucose syrup, vegetable fats (palm, shea), cocoa butter, dried whey (from milk), glucose-fructose syrup, cocoa mass, hazelnuts, fat-reduced cocoa, emulsifiers (E442, soya lecithin, E471), dried skimmed milk, salt, flavourings, molasses, sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, colours (anthocyanins, paprika extract), humectant (glycerol), stabiliser (invertase).
MAY CONTAIN: OTHER NUTS
OTHER INFORMATION
CONTAINS: MILK, HAZELNUTS, SOYA.

God I am so glad I have no alleges

The legally required format is that all ingredients are listed with allergen containing ones in bold. Any other allergen labelling is voluntary. Alibi labelling is used where either the processing method cannot guarantee absence of an allergen e.g. if a factory makes breakfast cereal they can't wet clean pipework as you will get mould issues, so it is cleaned with a if of cereal' or a salt scrub, which is then discarded.or an ingredient used is allergen free in its own right but the supplier cannot guarantee cross contamination. Almonds are seeds but counted as tree nuts for EU legislation. Coconuts are not nuts but are listed on USA labelling as they consider coconut as a stand alone allergen. Allergen lists are based on the most common allergens in a region so Japan has Apple, we don't. Celery allergy is rare in UK but more common in Scandinavia so included in the EU list. That said the voluntary labelling on the Roses seems inconsistent and if Brazil nuts really are in one chocolate and not listed in total ingredients, the label is illegal.

The almond is technically a fruit not a nut anyway