Under the current system, council tax in England is calculated based on the price the property would have sold for in April 1991. For Wales, it is evaluated on property prices in April 2003.
Kate Lancaster's two children both have milk allergies and she regularly posts advice on TikTok as The Dairy Free Mum.She thinks TikTok has a responsibility to ensure all products sold on its shopping platform meet safety and labelling standards.
"It's completely unacceptable and really worrying. Failing to provide ingredient information is potentially very dangerous, and it feels like a complete disregard for the safety of those living with food allergies," she said.Tanya Ednan-Laperouse co-founded The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation in the name of her daughter whoShe said: "'TikTok should be responsible for ensuring that all their UK food sellers meet legislative requirements to sell food products on their app.
"Any that don't should be immediately removed from the app and investigated, but ideally this should not happen if their checks and balances are rigorous and in place."After her daughter's death, new safety rules, known as "Natasha's Law", were introduced which require full ingredient and allergen labelling on all food made on premises and pre-packed for direct sale.
Kate believes TikTok is allowing sellers to "swerve" basic food labelling requirements as the app allows people not to list any ingredients at all and thinks
the platform should penalise those who don't provide the correct information.The FSA website says that if food is sold online or over the phone through "distance selling" then allergen information must be provided at two different stages in the order process.
This usually means providing allergy information in the online description and then also on the packaging so a buyer has two opportunities to check if their allergy could be triggered.Get our flagship newsletter with all the headlines you need to start the day.
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