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Food Allergy Week (26 May – 1 June) is an initiative by Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia that aims to increase community awareness about food allergy in an effort to promote understanding and ultimately help protect those at risk. One of…

Allergen awareness, knowledge and labelling practices within the foodservice sector have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent times, and it would seem this is for very good reason. A German study of restaurant staff has revealed several critical…

Aimmune Therapeutics, the US company developing the peanut allergy therapy dubbed ‘AR101’, is set to receive a US FDA decision regarding its marketing application for the product in September this year. The drug is designed as a once-daily peanut allergen…

At a public meeting earlier in May, the Board of the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) agreed that full ingredient labelling should be made mandatory for all pre-packed food available for direct sale to consumers. The FSA agrees that such…

The Coeliac Society of Ireland has developed a free, online self-assessment tool which aims to help people with undiagnosed coeliac disease. Users must first register to take the 10 minute test, which steps through a number of questions about current health…

The Victorian state’s Health Department has for the first time released data that reveals over 1,000 Victorians have presented at hospital emergency rooms with anaphylaxis since the beginning of November last year. More than 60 per cent of the 1,028…