Allergen Management Masterclass: What Every Food Business Needs to Know
The full session recording, slides, and six ready-to-use templates. Everything you need to build an allergen management system that holds up under audit.
Undeclared allergens are the single biggest cause of food product recalls in Australia, accounting for nearly half of all recall events every year. For food businesses, an allergen mistake is not just a recall. It is a fatality, a prosecution, and a reputation you cannot rebuild.
This masterclass cuts through the complexity and shows you exactly what a compliant, audit-ready allergen management system looks like in practice. Delivered by Nicole Inwood, a practising food safety consultant and certified auditor with over 20 years of experience conducting certification audits across manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and primary production.
What you get
The full recording of the live Allergen Management Masterclass, the presentation slides, and six professional templates you can pick up and use in your business immediately.
The eight templates included:
Allergen Management Procedure
Allergen Matrix
Allergen Risk Assessment
Label Review and Approval Checklist
Supplier Specification Allergen Assessment
Allergen Awareness Toolbox Talk Guide
Allergen Legislation Reference and Links
Allergen Awareness Poster
What the masterclass covers
In 60 minutes this session covers exactly what a compliant allergen management system looks like and how to know whether yours is actually audit-ready.
After 20 years conducting certification audits, I see the same gaps in almost every business I review:
Allergen matrices that are out of date or incomplete
Cross-contact risks that have never been properly assessed
Cleaning procedures that have never been validated for allergen removal
Labels that do not comply with the Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL) reforms that came into full effect in February 2026
Staff who have received generic food safety training but have never been specifically trained on allergens
Any one of these gaps is enough to generate a non-conformance, trigger a recall, or worse. This masterclass closes them.
Specifically, you will learn:
The 14 priority allergens regulated in Australia and how cross-contact risk differs from intentional inclusion
What the PEAL reforms require and how to confirm your labels are fully compliant
The Australian regulatory framework and what certification standards including SQF, BRCGS, and FSSC 22000 require beyond the legislative minimum
The five most common allergen audit failures in Australian food businesses and what auditors specifically look for
How allergen management fits into a complete HACCP system
Five actions you can implement immediately
Who this is for
This session is for food safety managers, quality managers, operations managers, and business owners across manufacturing, hospitality, retail, primary production, and any business supplying into the food industry. You should have a basic to intermediate understanding of food safety. You do not need to be an expert.
If you already have a food safety system in place but are not fully confident it would hold up under audit, this is for you.
$97 — one-time purchase. Yours to keep.
Want more than a one-off resource?
The Pinnacle Food Safety Community gives you ongoing access to Nicole's expertise, a growing library of resources, every future masterclass as it is released, and a weekly live Q&A session where you bring your real questions and get direct answers from a practising auditor.
Community membership is $97 per month. As a founding member you lock in at that price for as long as you remain a member.
Nicole is the founder of Pinnacle Management Systems and a practising food safety consultant and certified auditor. She works with food businesses across Australia to build practical, compliant food safety systems that hold up under audit. Nicole is the creator of the HACCP Accelerator coaching program and the Pinnacle Food Safety Community.
