Australia & NZ's Allergen List (ASCIA/FSANZ): What's Different

Australia and New Zealand require declaration of: peanuts, tree nuts (named individually: almond, Brazil nut, cashew, hazelnut, macadamia, pecan, pine nut, pistachio, and walnut), milk, egg, fish, crustacea, mollusc, sesame, soybeans, lupin, added sulphites at or above 10mg/kg, and gluten-containing cereals (wheat, barley, oats, and rye). This sits in Standard 1.2.3 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

PEAL is a formatting requirement, similar in spirit to Natasha's Law in the UK: it standardises exactly how allergens must be worded and presented on packaging, rather than leaving manufacturers to phrase things differently. It became mandatory for new production from February 2024, and the grace period allowing older stock to remain on shelves without the updated format ended in February 2026. In practical terms, if you are reading a label in Australia or New Zealand today, it should now be in the standardised PEAL format.

Alongside the labelling list, ASCIA publishes its own Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy guideline on infant feeding for allergy prevention, updated as recently as January 2026. The current recommendation is to introduce common allergens from around six months, not before four months, and to continue offering them regularly, at least once a week, through the first year. We go through what the guideline actually recommends, including the part that surprised us about which babies it applies to, in a dedicated breakdown. As with every source in this piece, this is general guidance, not advice for your specific child, so run your plan by your own paediatrician.

Set your region to Australia/NZ and the app's allergen schedule follows this list, tree nuts broken out individually rather than grouped, which matches how the label itself will read. Each allergen tracks as not started, introduced, cleared, or reaction, the same record either way.