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Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) is currently recruiting young participants for a trial to explore whether slowly introducing egg proteins into a child’s diet with a probiotic could put their allergy into remission. Eighty children and adolescents aged five…

The Food and Drug Administration in the USA has issued guidance to food manufacturers to provide temporary regulatory flexibility in food labelling requirements under certain circumstances. This is designed to help minimise the impact of supply chain disruptions associated with…

Risk assessment approaches based on food allergen thresholds were introduced some time ago to underpin action levels for precautionary allergen labelling. New threshold dose data has now been published for the most significant food allergens. In 2007, the Allergen Bureau…

The number of people with coeliac disease around the world has increased rapidly over recent decades. As researchers look to understand why, one study has indicated chemicals found in non-stick cookware, pesticides and fire retardants may be involved. A team…

Allergy researchers have uncovered a large discrepancy in estimates of food allergy prevalence in children on US Medicaid compared to the general population. Medicaid is a US federal and state program that helps with medical costs for low-income individuals and families. To…

A new study has found that people with coeliac disease who are on a long-term gluten-free diet are still frequently exposed to gluten. Using gluten immunogenic peptides (GIP) in faecal and urine samples as a marker of gluten exposure, researchers…