Allergy Research
·Jul 27, 2021
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has conducted the first known priority setting exercise to identify unanswered food hypersensitivity research questions. Food hypersensitivity includes food allergy, coeliac disease and food intolerance. Following UK-wide public consultation that resulted in 295 responses,…
Allergy Research
·Jun 23, 2021
A series of conditional recommendations for managing food allergy in childcare centres and schools has been made by a group of scientists following systematic literature reviews of the anticipated health effects of selected interventions. Lifting blanket bans on food allergens…
Allergy Research
·May 27, 2021
Our understanding of the factors involved with childhood allergy development has been advanced by a new study that has analysed the microbiota of meconium – a baby’s first stool after birth. Babies whose first stool did not contain a normal…
Allergy Research
·Apr 26, 2021
An Australian research team have found infants whose pacifiers, or dummies, were sterilised with an antiseptic solution were more likely to have a diagnosed food allergy at the age of one. The risk appears to be entirely connected to the…
Allergy Research
·Apr 26, 2021
A product survey assessing the allergen label status on hundreds of prepacked food products imported from Thailand to Australia has found some carry significant risks for allergic consumers. The survey included 549 Thai products purchased from seven Asian retail grocery…
Allergy Research
·Mar 22, 2021
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra believe they are a significant step closer to creating better treatments for people with allergies, having identified the protein neuritin as an important component of the body’s response to allergens. In…
