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[foodmcc]

Hello, 

labeling is not my expertise, and I see around the internet there are plenty of consulting companies who will check labels and help design labels & nutritional panels. 

Does anyone know of an automatic label check?  Where I could just paste text such as ingredient statement, and then the computer could detect allergens , sub ingredient call-outs ...minor things like this?  Anyone know of such a thing?
 

 

 

 

[jfrey123]

That would be incredible if one ever existed.

[kingstudruler1]

I dont know of any.   I'm not sure how it might know that "natural flavor" contained "X" allergen.   

 

 

Some of the nutritional software like ESHA Genesis will create the ingredient statement for you.  But it would still be "garbage in = garbage out".   Even this would not take out all of the human element.    There may be sub-ingredients that you can / would want to remove as they don't have a nutritional or functional effect in the finished product.  

[foodmcc]

I dont know of any.   I'm not sure how it might know that "natural flavor" contained "X" allergen.   

 

 

Some of the nutritional software like ESHA Genesis will create the ingredient statement for you.  But it would still be "garbage in = garbage out".   Even this would not take out all of the human element.    There may be sub-ingredients that you can / would want to remove as they don't have a nutritional or functional effect in the finished product.  

 

Oh right, I agree with your statement garbage in = garbage out, and thanks for your insight.  I was just thinking like an extra verification step to highlight allergens already clearly listed on the label.  Like the database could only highlight words that it recognized as known allergens.

 

Thanks again for the feedback