What do the lists of numbers mean next to menu items in Prague?

garage_greg

I am currently in Prague, and I have noticed on quite a few menus there will be the following next to an item: A: 1,3,7,8 The numbers may be different for each item, but it doesn't seem to mean anything. There's no choice of portion size, for example. What does this mean?

Originally asked by Ted on Stack Exchange (travel) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Since 2015, restaurants in Czech Republic have to use standardized food allergy charts. Since the standardized allergens are numbered, restaurants often list just the numbers for each food, with a legend available (but the legend may be only in Czech). This is based on EU regulation 1169/2011, which lists the allergens in Annex II : Cereals containing gluten, namely: wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, kamut or their hybridised strains, and products thereof, except: wheat based glucose syrups including dextrose (1); wheat based maltodextrins (1); glucose syrups based on barley; cereals used for making alcoholic distillates including ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin; Crustaceans and...

Full answer by svick: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/73145 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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