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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...
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...
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...
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...
To fulfill its responsibility towards the consumer, BIOTECON Diagnostics decided to develop high-quality detection kits for food allergens...
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...
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…
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…
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…
26 November 2009 | By Neogen Europe
Neogen Europe has expanded its line of food allergen test kits to include a quantitative test for mustard.
