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The Australian Federal Budget has announced a $26.9 million investment over 4 years to address allergy and anaphylaxis. The funding will lead to the creation of two vital organisations, the National Allergy Council (NAC) and National Allergy Centre of Excellence…

The ILSI Europe Expert Group (EG) on food allergen quantitative risk assessment (QRA) has been working towards achieving consensus on the methods needed for allergen QRAs by food business operators, and their implementation. The EG have now published an introduction…

Worldwide, the food industry needs to advance understanding and knowledge sharing in allergen management, especially peanut allergen detection. This is the view of Guangtao Zhang, Ph.D., Director of the Mars Global Food Safety Centre (GFSC) presented in an insightful Q&A…

Dairy products are more prone to undeclared allergen recalls because they often contain a wide variety of ingredients, according to Mamun Chowdhury, technical manager for SGS North America Inc. This is one of many insights offered in an article published…

The FACTS team have been VITAL® trainers since 2013, and have provided allergen consulting and testing services to the South African food industry for almost 20 years. South Africa’s allergen regulations – which mandate precautionary allergen labelling – are among…

The Allergen Bureau is always looking for ways to support industry to ensure employees and employers have allergen knowledge and understanding of both why an Allergen Management Plan is critical in any food business, and how to develop one. Recently the Allergen…