School Meals Act stipulates that where school meals contain allergenic food materials, the principal and school meal service providers shall notify students to whom such meals are provided and shall indicate such fact when providing school meals.
However, the subject of the School Meals Act is limited to schools defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. There is currently no observation on the notification of allergenic food materials in meals provided by day care centers, preschools and other cafeterias for children.
The statute states that the heads of cafeterias for children and food service providers providing food to such cafeterias have the obligation to notify students or their legal guardians on any ingredient or raw material likely to cause an allergic response, thereby expanding the duty to cafeterias in day care centers, preschools, teenage facilities, child welfare centers, etc., other than schools and allowing the establishment and management of an information sharing system for children’s cafeterias that facilitates information exchange on cafeteria hygiene, nutrition management and allergenic food materials supplied by the nutritionists (Article 11-2 (1) and Article 22-2 newly inserted).

Article 33 (Management for Food and Nutrition Service) ① (the same except for title)
② Where ingredients or raw materials that may cause allergic response are used in the food provided by the day care center or facility other than schools, the head of such facility and the caretaker in charge of providing food are obligated to notify the child and legal guardian of the child beforehand and label the food accordingly.