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Worldwide, the food industry needs to advance understanding and knowledge sharing in allergen management, especially peanut allergen detection. This is the view of Guangtao Zhang, Ph.D., Director of the Mars Global Food Safety Centre (GFSC) presented in an insightful Q&A…

In the world’s first known study of its kind, most adults diagnosed with food allergy were found to not follow the dietary advice they had been given by a health professional. Several underlying reasons were found, offering health professionals an…

Peanut-coated microneedles have been shown to offer better food allergen immunotherapy in early studies carried out on preclinical models. A microneedle device is worn like a band aid and delivers treatments directly through the skin barrier. As well as being…

Among children with food allergy, up to 40 per cent are allergic to multiple foods. While introducing potentially allergenic foods in early infancy has proven effective at preventing the development of food allergies in childhood, research shows this strategy is…

Exposure to environmental greenness in childhood appears to have an impact on the risk of developing allergic disease. Melbourne-based researchers have explored for the first time a possible link between exposure to environmental greenness and food allergy risk. Environmental greenness…

A peanut allergy treatment trial involving 200 children has brought remission in about half of the group, allowing them to stop treatment and safely eat peanut as frequently as they liked four years later. The research, led by the Murdoch…