According to the Europeans laws, if you sell food you are required to label the ingredients and highlight the allergens (https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/food-labelling/general-rules/index_en.htm)

Now a lot cafés don't even label the pastries they sell ! And it is driving me mad.
In France a lot of backeries (if not most) have a tag with the name and prices of the pastries and in the past years those tags have started to include the allergens.
But in cafés ? That quite rare.

I had a bad experience in a café abroad were the cake of the day was sold to me has just a basic fruit cake but it was, in fact, a weird raw cake with fruits that was made of cashew cream which wasn't labeled anywhere.
Now, I know I need to tell the people working here I have allergies but in an ideal world where everything is labeled correctly I wouldn't have to.

Is there anything more I can do than just telling the employees that what the café is doing goes against EU regulation ? Is there anyway I coud report it ?


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