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The US State of Illinois has mandated that packaged foods sold there indicate the presence of sesame on their labels. This comes as the FDA is still considering whether to add sesame to its list of major allergens that must…

The Allergen Bureau was delighted to receive the APAC Food Safety 2019 ‘Innovators in Food Safety Award’ for the Voluntary Incidental Trace Allergen Labelling (VITAL®) Program, including VITAL Online. The award was presented at the recent APAC Food Safety Conference…

Ai Group, the Allergen Bureau and Australian Food & Grocery Council, (AFGC) has been addressing the issue of milk (from cows milk) being inadvertently present in dark chocolate, following a milk-to-dark-chocolate production changeover. In working through this issue, we have…

The Allergen Bureau is delighted to announce this year’s winners of the AIFST and NZIFST Allergen Bureau Awards for best practice food allergen management. Sarah Proctor, Food Safety Coordinator Lion Dairy & Drinks, was selected as the winner of the…

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…

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…