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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a consultation to gather views from businesses and consumers on the use of voluntary precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) on food packaging, also known as “may contain” statements. Recent studies, including those conducted…

A missing piece in the link between the skin and the development of food allergies has been discovered by a team from Wellington’s Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. Immunologists have long been aware that exposure to allergens through the skin…

Results from a small clinical trial suggest children who are severely allergic to milk may be able to start tolerating it if they are given tiny amounts of baked milk powder followed by progressively larger doses. About 3 per cent…

Precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) such as “may contain traces of” is often used by food manufacturers but is generally unhelpful for consumers. Following widespread consultation, a voluntary labelling declaration has been proposed, to indicate that any unintended presence of an…

Milk is one of the leading causes of fatal or near-fatal food-induced anaphylactic reactions globally. Because of this, most countries require milk to be declared on a food label when present as an ingredient, yet undeclared milk is the most…

With the rise in availability of frozen and on-the-go meals, US-based researchers have looked at the extent of undeclared allergens or labelled allergens that are not actually present at detectable levels in these foods. Using a 7-plex immunoassay capable of…