Allergen Statement

Our ingredients are produced from vegetable crop side-streams (primarily brassica crops such as broccoli) and are free from the 14 allergens requiring declaration under UK and EU Food Information Regulations. The following allergens, as defined under UK/EU FIC, are not intentionally used in the manufacture of our ingredients:

• Cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, kamut)

• Crustaceans

• Eggs

• Fish

• Peanuts

• Soybeans

• Milk (including lactose)

• Nuts (tree nuts)

• Celery

• Mustard

• Sesame

• Sulphur dioxide and sulphites at concentrations of more than 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/litre in terms of total SO₂

• Lupin

• Molluscs

We operate under a food safety management system with documented allergen risk assessments, segregation controls, validated cleaning procedures, and supplier assurance programmes. No ingredients containing the 14 declared allergens are intentionally introduced into the production environment. Cross-contact risk with declared allergens is assessed as low under our HACCP plan; full documentation is available on request.

Traceability Statement

The Company operates full batch traceability across its harvest-to-ingredient platform in accordance with BRCGS Food Safety Standard requirements.

Traceability is maintained across the following stages:

Processing & conversion

• Raw material batch IDs are retained through all processing stages

• Process parameters, yields and downgrades are logged digitally

• Blending pathways are controlled and documented to ensure consistency

Finished ingredient

• Finished goods are assigned a finished product lot code

• Each lot code is traceable back to:

  • input crop batches

  • processing line

  • production date

  • QA release status

Distribution

• Dispatch records link finished product lot codes to customer deliveries

Recall capability

We can perform one-step-forward / one-step-back traceability and execute a full product recall within 4 hours, in line with customer and regulatory requirements.

Country-of-Origin

Our ingredients are produced under a short, transparent UK supply chain designed to minimise food miles, reduce Scope 3 emissions, and ensure supply resilience.

Crop origin: United Kingdom (during UK growing season) or Spain (during UK off-season) sourced from UK pack-houses. Primary sourcing from UK grower partners (and their Spanish partners), including organised grower groups

Processing: United Kingdom. Ingredients manufactured at UPP’s facility in the UK

Finished ingredient country of origin: United Kingdom. Where multiple UK farms contribute to a production batch:

• Country of origin remains UK/Spain

• Full farm-level traceability is retained internally

• Customer documentation will state:

• “Country of origin: United Kingdom (multiple UK/Spanish farms)”

Future expansion model (forward-looking disclosure): As we replicates our modular production model internationally:

• Country of origin will reflect the country of harvest and manufacture

• UK-manufactured ingredients will remain clearly segregated from non-UK production