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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has commissioned a report that provides scientific advice on the risk assessment of undeclared allergens in foods. This advice is intended to inform the urgency and extent of any remedial action (such as…

Two papers from The Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management (iFAAM) project have presented more information about how consumers with food allergies make decisions based on precautionary labelling, and how such labelling systems can be improved. An…

With rates of allergy continuing to rise in most parts of the developed world, the factors driving the increase are still largely unknown. A large meta-analysis by researchers in South Australia has looked at the associations between birth weight (corrected…

More than four million people in Australia are now affected by allergies and over the past 20 years, hospital admissions for anaphylaxis have increased five-fold. In response to this growing public health issue, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on…

Peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT), which involves daily micro-dosing with peanut protein, has been shown to desensitize some people with peanut allergy. Research is still needed to determine the optimal treatment regime in terms of OIT dose and duration that will…

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has commissioned and funded a study that has found exercise and sleep deprivation can significantly reduce the amount of peanut needed to trigger an allergic reaction in people with peanut allergy. According to media…