May contain/produced in factory that handles

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Hello!
One year old has confirmed cows milk allergy and possible sesame/chickpea allergy which I’m waiting rest results.
Anyway, been told I can give him foods that say ‘MAY CONTAIN MILK’ but I’m not sure about ‘PRODUCED IN FACTORY THAT HANDLES MILK, etc etc’. I’m looking at warburtons fruit bread with raisins and soreen banana malt loaf.
Can anyone advise please?

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I would suppose that would depend on the allergy but I find most things (apart from certified free from things) tend to have this on regardless. If your lo only has skin reactions to milk then I would imagine it would be ok in this scenario.

As PP said, it depends on the allergy. My DD has CMPA and has no problem with "produced in a factory that handles" so far... it feels like it's just to cover the manufacturer.

My DS is anaphylactic to fish so we avoid giving him anything that's been anywhere near fish. We probably don't have to but I just can't bear to take the risk.

On the allergy groups there are people who are so allergic their airways close up with the merest whiff of an allergen in the environment. I guess it's those sorts of allergies that have to be extra vigilant.

It's really annoying and more and more manufacturers are doing it just to cover their backs

Ok so it sounds like I can try him with ‘produced in factory’. I can understand companies wanting to be extra vigilant, I’ve noticed so much packing with ‘may contain’.
Thank you for your help!

So far he seems to be ok with anything that has said ‘may contain’ (runs off to find a piece of wood to touch!) It is frustrating as I’ve been avoiding anything that says ‘produced in factory’. I’ll know to keep an extra close eye on him and if he does react then I just won’t give it to him again.

The problem is that companies aren't legally obliged to give you any may contain / produced in factory that also handles information. There are also no standards (other than possibly for gluten) on what level of cross contamination risk is acceptable. I'm in a Facebook group for allergies, and people posted examples of the same product (biscuit possibly) own brand version from different supermarkets - one supermarket labeled 'not suitable for milk allergy' another 'may contain' and a third 'produced in a factory that also handles' so they really aren't consistent. Nuts I suspect they might be better at labelling but my experience of milk is that they are rubbish at labelling it. Given how common an ingredient unless it's specifically free from, I assume it's probably made in a factory that makes something else that has milk in it.

The only one my Facebook group recommend being more cautious about is chocolate - apparently it's more difficult to clean off the machines so cross contamination is more likely. DD doesn't like dark chocolate so it's not one we've tested though.

@Teddyreddy thank you! I’ve noticed so many foods that don’t contain any milk but with ‘not suitable for milk allergy sufferers’ printed on them.

You’ve all confirmed my thoughts, that a lot of manufacturers put a warning on just in case.

It's not because something is produced in a factory that also handles product x, that your product is going to contain product x. Food production chains are highly controlled.

For example, how often have you found a chocolate chip in a box of non chocolate chip cookies? Many factories produce both under one roof