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Allergen labelling is the highest-consequence text on a food package. It is prescriptive rather than descriptive — the wording, placement and completeness are specified — and getting it wrong is a recall rather than a correction.
There is no single global allergen list. The United States names a set of major allergens; the EU names fourteen; other markets differ again. A label compliant at home can be non-compliant in an export market on a single omission.
"May contain" statements cover unintended cross-contact from shared equipment. They are voluntary in many jurisdictions and increasingly scrutinised, because overuse makes them meaningless to the people who need them most.
A supplier changing a sub-ingredient can introduce an allergen without changing anything you specified. Allergen review belongs to every formulation change, including ones that look like they only affect cost.
GRAJ generates a declaration from a structured ingredient list against the jurisdiction you select. It produces the statement; it does not verify your ingredients, and the responsibility for the label is the producer's.