EuroPrevall: food allergy safety assessment

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 22:45

EuroPrevall have posted on their website a lay summary of a report from the ‘Developing a framework for assessing the risk from allergenic foods’ workshop published earlier this year. The summary article titled ‘How scientists assess if a food is safe for allergic people’ can be accessed at www.europrevall.org/public.asp?id=3526

The workshop report this article refers to is: C. B. Madsen, S. Hattersley, J. Buck, S. M. Gendel, G. F. Houben, J. O'B. Hourihane, A. Mackie, E. N. C. Mills, P. Nørhede, S. L. Taylor, R. W. R. Crevel (2009). Approaches to risk assessment in food allergy: Report from a workshop “developing a framework for assessing the risk from allergenic foods”. Food Chem. Toxicol.  47(2), 480-489.