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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…

When a person has an allergic reaction, the amount of the offending food they have consumed is one of the factors that determines the severity of their reaction. When food producers assess the risk from unintended allergen presence in a…

In a nationally representative population-based survey of more than 40,000 US adults, around 19 per cent reported having a food allergy. However when questioned further, only an estimated 10 per cent reported having symptoms consistent with a ‘convincing’ allergic reaction…