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The Food Allergen Management Symposium 2021 is open to post event registration and access to the recordings of the presentations. For those that attended FAMS2021, all presentation recordings are available for viewing – simply use your existing log in details.…

NZIFST The NZIFST Conference 2021 will be held at the Palmerston North Convention Centre on Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th July 2021. The conference theme is Food-With Care Kai – me te whakaaro nui. Allergen Bureau Director, Debbie Hawkes (Hawkins…

Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia will hold the 18th annual Food Allergy Week from 23-29 May 2021 to raise awareness of food allergies in the Australian community. This year’s focus is on educating people with food allergy on how to increase…

The French insect farming company, Agronutris, that made an application for the use of yellow mealworm as a food has gained approval from the European Commission. This is the first insect to be approved as a novel food, with the…

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) have conducted joint research to review and summarise the existing literature on consumer knowledge, attitudes and behaviours relating to allergen declarations and precautionary allergen or advisory labelling…

Our understanding of the factors involved with childhood allergy development has been advanced by a new study that has analysed the microbiota of meconium – a baby’s first stool after birth. Babies whose first stool did not contain a normal…