Allergen management - non-food safe chemicals/lubricants

Hi,

Compliance around BRCGS, section 4.7.5. for FOOD GRADE lubricants/chemicals allergen status needs to be confirmed. I've read the below posts and am happy ref requirement. majority of the time suppliers have something easily accessible I can file. 

Food Grade Lubricant Allergen Free? - IFSQN

Allergen Risk Analysis for Food Grade Lubricants - IFSQN

However, if our allergen management includes prevention of banned allergens, i.e. Peanuts (peanut oil), it seems a challenge could be made to provide this information for all chemicals on site. We obviously do this for raw mat specs. 

This is a lot more work as the allergen status isn't provided outright which is frustrating (i.e on technical sheet, (M)SDS). Not sure if it has to be declared on the physical label...

Is there a way to be compliant without asking suppliers (manufacturers) for each and every material what allergens (if any) are present?

I'm also considering customer clauses/challenges not just BRC. There's nothing in BRC ver 9 explicitly stating this requirement but our allergen risk management would capture it - prohibited/undeclared allergens in a non-food safe chemical. 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

hi ;)

I am afraid that this must be checked, and you should have specification in place and proof of checks. 

Don't forget about pesticide review.. I was challenged by Tesco auditor