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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…

The Food Allergen Portal is a web-based platform to access trusted information and best practice resources about managing food allergens. The ‘one stop shop’ houses information and resources aimed at consumers, food manufacturers and retailers; the food service sector; childcare…

The Allergen Bureau was pleased to award the 2019 Allergen Bureau travel grant for postgraduate or early career researchers to Hesrie van Heerden, Food & Allergy Consulting & Testing Services (FACTS), South Africa. Ms van Heerden’s poster abstract ‘Emerging allergen…