According to a new study, recently published on Food Control by researchers from Queen's University Belfast and Edge Hill University, food allergen-related (FAR) recalls accounted for more than half (57.6%) of [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reconvened the Ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens for a secon [...]
Food Allergy Canada has recently released the Allergen Management Guidelines for Food Manufacturers to assist the country’s food and beverage producers in the process of implementing food allergen prevent [...]
According to an evaluation conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), edible insects sold in the United Kingdom pose low risk to the public. FSA experts looked at allergens, microbial, and heavy metal contam [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Danone Food Safety Center have recently published, in the peer-reviewed journal Trends in Food Science & Technology, a review about the [...]
The Allergen Bureau has just published a brand-new industry guide, Assessing Agricultural Cross Contact 2022, developed by a volunteer group of Allergen Bureau members to offer guidance to food businesses on id [...]
The European Commission has recently released its annual report of all the information shared in 2021 within the Alert and Cooperation Network (ACN), to which the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed network (R [...]
A recent analysis shows remarkable levels of undeclared allergens on food labels. Avoiding allergic food is the mainstay of management since there is no curative treatment for food allergies. Therefore, mislabe [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently released its draft guidance for staff and stakeholders, which, after being finalized, will represent the agency’s non-binding approach to assessing t [...]
The European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) task force on food allergen thresholds has evaluated the allergen threshold of 5mg per 100g recently proposed by a group of researchers. The gro [...]
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