Allergen Information
Since 1906, Spangler Candy Company has been dedicated to making quality products, including favorites like Dum Dum Pops, Saf-T-Pops and Circus Peanuts. We’re also focused on the safety of our products. This is especially important given the rise in recent years of food allergies, food intolerances and cases of celiac disease.
We make every effort to ensure that our products are free of the most common allergens. So whether you, or someone in your life, is on a gluten-free diet or has an allergy to wheat, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, fish or shellfish, you can feel confident that our products are 100% safe.
When it comes to food allergies we know how important peace of mind is.
If you have any questions about our ingredients, please send an email to info@spanglercandy.com, or contact our Quality Assurance department. Check the product & ingredient FAQs page first. An icon in the square below denotes that particular product is free from the allergen listed. Click on the link on the left to go to the Order page for that product.
*A note about soy.
Our products, except Circus Peanuts, may contain trace amounts of soy oil, a processing aid in making candy. The soy oil has been refined, bleached and deodorized, a process that removes the protein that can cause an allergic reaction. Because individual sensitivities vary, however, we have chosen to list the soy oil.
Allergen Statements on Re-bagged Items
In today’s candy market it is a regular practice for retailers to have their own store’s private label bag (special graphic bags for that store only). Some of these private label bags will contain Spangler lollipops and circus peanuts, due to our good quality and reputation. In most of these situations, we do not pack these items ourselves but the retailer or a customer of ours purchases and repackages our items. These are the same quality pops that we provide in our own Spangler branded bags, but the allergen free claim may be different as these companies often package other items containing peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, wheat gluten, eggs, fish, shellfish, or soy in their facilities. Trace element of these allergens could come into contact with our items.
To be confident that you are getting an allergen-free candy item, always check the back of the bag for an allergen statement. Spangler Candy bags manufactured and packaged in our facility will have the following identifiers:
(1)
Spangler logo on the front of the bag
(2)
Graphics of bag as shown on this website
(3) Current Spangler allergen statement: This product does not contain peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, or gluten. It has been manufactured on dedicated equipment.
(4) Manufactured by Spangler Candy Company, Bryan, Ohio, 43506 USA.
If you have any questions please contact our Quality Assurance department via info@spanglercandy.com or 888-636-4221.
5 ways we make sure our products are allergy free.
Our manufacturing facilities are 100% free of gluten (from wheat, barley and rye), dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, fish and shellfish.
All Spangler Candy products are made on dedicated manufacturing equipment.
We thoroughly clean every manufacturing line, every day.
We notify all of our suppliers about our allergen standards. We also request an annual allergen report from each supplier to verify that the ingredients they provide are allergy free.
At least twice a year, all of our products are tested for allergens by an independent food lab.
Did you know? Facts about food allergies and intolerances in the United States.
- About 3 million children have a food or digestive allergy.1
- About 4% of adults have a food allergy. 2
- 30-50 million people are lactose intolerant.3
- Over 3 million have celiac disease, an intolerance to gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley and rye. 4
- More than 3 million are allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, or both. 5
- Over 900,000 have milk allergies. 6
- Over 2 million have autism. 7
- From 1997 to 2007 the number of children with food allergies rose by 18%. 8
(1) National Center for Health Statistics, 2008 Brief, (2) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2007, (3) Consumer Health Interactive Report, 2008 (4) Celiac.com, 2007, & National Institutes of Health (5) Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 2003 (6) Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), (7) Autism Speaks (8) American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 2008.
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