Thank you to all stakeholders and VITAL Program users who have reached out regarding the launch of VITAL® 4.0, the summary document, FAQs, and the updated Food Industry Guide to the VITAL Program. Some of you have requested clarification on the shrimp Reference Dose listed in the VITAL 4.0 Summary and FAQ document. We can confirm that, according to page 90 of the FAO and WHO 2022 Report: Risk Assessment of Food Allergens: Part 2, this value applies to all crustacea. We have updated the document to clarify this point with a footnote on page 6.
Please feel free to continue contacting us and providing feedback. We greatly appreciate your diligence and assistance in ensuring our resources are clear. We recommend saving the website to your favourites and accessing the resources online rather than downloading them, to ensure you always have the latest version at your disposal.
For those waiting for our VITAL Best Practice Labelling Guide, work is underway to update this document. Thank you for your patience, and we will provide a more detailed update in the next newsletter.
