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The number of food recalls due to the undeclared presence of allergens rose by more than 25 per cent in Australia in 2018 compared with the previous year. In a media report accompanying the release of this data, Mark Booth,…

A small study carried out in Norway has uncovered a link between enterovirus (a common intestinal virus) in early childhood and the subsequent development of coeliac disease in children who have a genetic predisposition to the condition. From 2001 to…

The 3rd Food Allergen Management Symposium (FAMS2019), is an assembly of the best minds across the spectrum of food allergen management. Anyone with an interest in food allergen management – and if you are reading this, then that means you…

The ABC’s Catalyst program setup a pop-up allergy clinic in Sydney with expert immunologists Professor Dianne Campbell and Professor Connie Katelaris to help uncover why Australia is ‘the allergy capital of the world’, and to look at the latest science…

BRC Global Standards (BRCGS) company have just released the latest issue of the Gluten-Free Certification Program (GFCP) Global Standard. In the absence of a cure for coeliac disease and non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, a strict gluten-free diet is needed to avoid…

An international research collaboration previously found that children with allergy to cow’s milk have markedly different bacteria in their gut than healthy children. To see if those differences contribute to the development of allergies, researchers have taken faecal samples from…