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A voluntary labeling of foods for allergens is good, a safe detection method is better!
To fulfill its responsibility towards the consumer, BIOTECON Diagnostics decided to develop high-quality detection kits for food allergens...
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SME food allergen labelling guidance published
4 August 2014 | By The Food Standards Agency
The FSA is issuing technical guidance to help small and medium-sized businesses comply with new rules on allergen labelling and information, which take effect later this year...
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Survey of undeclared allergenic peanuts in commercial foods by Taqman real time PCR
4 November 2013 | By Inés María López-Calleja Diaz, Silvia de la Cruz, Nicolette Pegels, Isabel González, Teresa García, and Rosario Martín, Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Food Technology, Complutense University of Madrid
Food allergies are a serious public health problem. Around one to two per cent of the population suffer from some type of food allergy and even higher prevalence levels (up to eight per cent) are estimated for children. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) allergy is one of the most severe food allergies…
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Food allergens: identifying thresholds and assessing the risk to consumers
26 April 2013 | By René Crevel, Science Leader, Unilever Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre
Food allergies have long been known as a clinical phenomenon, with welldocumented case studies as far back as the 1920s. Their recognition as a food safety issue only arose in the 1990s partly in the wake of the remarkable increase in prevalence of general allergic diseases. In order to protect…
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LCMS as a reliable tool for monitoring food allergens contamination
1 May 2012 | By Linda Monaci, National Research Council of Italy (ISPA-CNR)
Food allergen research has considerably expanded its field of interest in recent years probably due to the increasing incidence of food allergies throughout the population. According to the last legislation issued on this issue, there is a current trend to develop reliable methods tailored to the detection of food allergens…
