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The Allergen Bureau is delighted to provide our members and the global food industry with these fantastic new food allergen management resources. Food Industry Guide to Allergen Management and Labelling for Australia and New Zealand The Food Industry Guide to Allergen…

Accurate food allergen labelling relies on evidence-based risk assessment. This process helps predict whether or not the amount of an allergen that may be present in a product due to cross-contact could pose a danger to someone with food allergy.…

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has commissioned a report that provides scientific advice on the risk assessment of undeclared allergens in foods. This advice is intended to inform the urgency and extent of any remedial action (such as…

Two papers from The Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management (iFAAM) project have presented more information about how consumers with food allergies make decisions based on precautionary labelling, and how such labelling systems can be improved. An…

On 14th October 2019, the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology held a Workshop on Food Allergen Management and Control in Beijing, China. The event was opened by Dr Junshi Chen from the China National Centre for Food Safety…

With rates of allergy continuing to rise in most parts of the developed world, the factors driving the increase are still largely unknown. A large meta-analysis by researchers in South Australia has looked at the associations between birth weight (corrected…