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At the most recent meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, it was accepted that the current allergen labelling provisions in the ‘General Standard for Labelling of Pre-packaged Foods’ lack sufficient clarity and detail for industry in how allergens should be…

An Australian study of 170 wheat varieties found modern wheat was no more allergenic than traditional varieties. The research examined the allergenicity of wheat varieties grown in Australia from 1860 to 2015, including some original varieties brought from England that…

Last year, the National Allergy Strategy launched the pilot phase of an Australian food allergy prevention project ‘Nip Allergies in the Bub’. A 12-month pilot was conducted in Western Australia as a world-first promotion of new childhood allergy prevention strategies. Following…

Demand for gluten-free foods is growing and, with bread being an important staple food, consumer demand for good quality gluten free bread is driving the development of suitable wheat bread substitutes. A recent Open Access review looks at research advances that…

A possible link between coeliac disease and dietary fibre intake during pregnancy has been found, with a study showing the risk of childhood coeliac disease was 8 per cent lower per 10 gram increase in maternal fibre intake. For expectant…

The rise in popularity of meat-substitute products may introduce higher consumption of concentrated forms of pea- and other plant-protein isolates than in traditional diets, and this may cause allergic reactions even in people who have never had problems eating these…