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Food Allergens: assessing the risk to consumers – an update

9 December 2015 | By René Crevel, Unilever Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre, Bedford, UK

Managing allergens in a manner that minimises the risk to allergic consumers while maximising their choices, as well as ensuring the overall sustainability of food production processes remains the subject of considerable work. The last three years have witnessed developments in areas as diverse as regulation, hazard characterisation and risk…

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General Mills recalls 1.8m boxes of Cheerios cereal in the US

6 October 2015 | By Victoria White

The company issued the recall following an isolated incident which resulted in wheat flour being inadvertently introduced into the gluten free oat flour system at its Lodi facility...

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NIR hyperspectral imaging for detection of nut contamination

1 September 2015 | By Puneet Mishra, Belén Diezma and Pilar Barreiro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

‘Nut’ is used to describe a wide range of seeds with a seed coat or shell. Because of high-energy content, micronutrients and positive global health impact, nuts have been present for centuries in human diet. However, over recent decades they have increasingly been found to induce adverse health effects. With…

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OLé peanuts: disease resistant with a long shelf-life

29 July 2015 | By Victoria White

A new variety of peanut that is disease resistant and has a long shelf-life, called OLé, has recently been released by a team of researchers...

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Guys & St Thomas’ and FoodMaestro collaborate to develop “free-from” digital products

27 July 2015 | By Victoria White

FoodMaestro and Guy’s and St Thomas’ are collaborating to create new digital tools for patients and healthcare professionals based on food allergy research...

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Scientists create new variety of low-allergenic soybean

6 May 2015 | By Victoria White

Scientists have created a new soybean with significantly reduced levels of three key proteins responsible for its allergenic and anti-nutritional effects...

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Food allergen labelling: Legislative requirements and guidance

24 April 2015 | By Barbara Gallani and Alex Turtle, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)

The Food Information to Consumers (FIC) Regulation (No 1169/2011, as amended)1 has introduced new rules for the provision of information on allergens. This Regulation, which came into force across the entire EU on 13th December 2014, combines general and nutrition labelling provisions together into a single regulation to simplify and…

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Peanut contamination could be easier to detect with infrared hyperspectral imaging

20 April 2015 | By Victoria White

New research has revealed that peanut contamination in food products could soon become much easier to detect using NIR hyperspectral imaging (HSI)...

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Neogen testing solutions for cumin and spice blend contamination

17 February 2015 | By Neogen Europe

With the recent UK recall for ground cumin issued by the Food Standards Agency due to the discovery of undeclared peanut protein, the issue of adulteration of the supply chain is once again front-of-mind...

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Undeclared almond incident update

17 February 2015 | By Food Standards Agency

The Food Standards Agency has issued a further allergy alert following confirmation that a batch of paprika was the most likely source of undeclared almond protein in three food products which have been recalled...

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Restaurants to add allergen warnings to their menus

12 December 2014 | By British Hospitality Association

From Saturday, 13 December, all restaurants and food businesses will be responsible for identifying, recording and clearly communicating when any of 14 allergens are used in a dish or drink...

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New food allergen rules for consumers

12 December 2014 | By The Food Standards Agency

The 2 million people in the UK who live with food allergies will be able to buy food and eat out with more confidence because of new EU rules coming into effect tomorrow, Saturday 13 December 2014...

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A voluntary labeling of foods for allergens is good, a safe detection method is better!

14 August 2014 | By BIOTECON Diagnostics

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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