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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a consultation to gather views from businesses and consumers on the use of voluntary precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) on food packaging, also known as “may contain” statements. Recent studies, including those conducted…

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Melinda Hardy and her team at Melbourne’s WEHI have been awarded $1.1m NHMRC funding through the Ideas Grant scheme. The grant will support research to better understand what leads to the symptoms of gluten sensitivity and coeliac…

A missing piece in the link between the skin and the development of food allergies has been discovered by a team from Wellington’s Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. Immunologists have long been aware that exposure to allergens through the skin…

Results from a small clinical trial suggest children who are severely allergic to milk may be able to start tolerating it if they are given tiny amounts of baked milk powder followed by progressively larger doses. About 3 per cent…

Together with AIFST, the Allergen Bureau is proud to present the Julie Newlands Award to HJ Langdon & Co. This award recognises the late Julie Newlands, inaugural director and honorary treasurer of the Allergen Bureau, and a fabulous and passionate…

Allergen Bureau is pleased to welcome new member Trumps. Trumps is a 3rd generation Australian Family business supplying Quality Conventional & Organic Dried food products including, Nuts, Dried Fruit, Beans & Pulse, Mixes & Mueslis. Stringent sourcing controls, combined with…