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Companies Are Adding Sesame to Foods. It ’ s an Unintended Consequence of a New Allergen Label Law
A new federal law requiring that sesame be listed as an allergen on food labels is having unintended consequences—increasing the number of products with the ingredient. Food industry experts said the requirements are so stringent that many manufacturers, especially bakers, find it simpler and less expensive to add sesame to a product—and to label it—than to try to keep it away from other foods or equipment with sesame. As a result, several companies—including national restaurant chains like Olive Garden, Wendy’s and Chick-fil-A and bread makers that stock grocery shelves and serve schools&mdas...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JoNel Aleccia/AP Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news

Recent Surveys on Food Allergy Prevalence
Substantial numbers of children and adults report having immunoglobulin E–mediated food allergies. However, generating accurate food allergy prevalence data is difficult. Self-reported data can overestimate prevalence when compared with prevalence estimates established by more rigorous methods. As of 2004, in the United States, the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act mandated that the label should declare the source of the food if the product contains that food or a protein-containing ingredient from that food (not all proteins in a major food allergen cause allergic reactions) in the manner described by t...
Source: Nutrition Today - January 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition and the Lifecycle Source Type: research

Are Fish Allergy Tests Unreliable?
A study from researchers at James Cook University (JCU) in Australia is shedding new light on diagnostics for fish allergies. The team led by PhD candidate Thimo Ruethers from JCU's Australian Institute for Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) found that materials in fish allergy tests could be unreliable. Researchers evaluated 26 commercially available fish preparations used for skin prick testing, the most common way of diagnosing fish allergy in Australia. "We found the amount of allergens present varied greatly, and in some preparations major fish allergens could not be detected. This means many skin prick tests that s...
Source: MDDI - April 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: MDDI Staff Tags: Business Source Type: news

Does nurses' role, health or symptoms influence their personal use of ingestible complementary and alternative medicines?
CONCLUSIONS: Findings showed a credible pattern of front line workers with physically demanding workloads that impact their physical health and are linked to frequent symptoms, using CAM treatments and achieving some success in being able to continue working and avoid sickness absence. Further investigation is warranted to protect and maintain the health of the nursing and midwifery workforce. PMID: 29154065 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine - November 22, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dimitrelis S, Perry L, Gallagher R, Duffield C, Sibbritt D, Nicholls R, Xu X Tags: Complement Ther Med Source Type: research

Epidemiology of Food Allergy
Understanding the epidemiology of food allergy is complicated by the difficulty of identifying it on a large scale. The prevalence of food allergy is higher in younger age groups and decreases with age. Allergy to peanut and egg seems to be more common in Northern Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia compared with Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia, whereas shellfish and fish allergies may be more common in Asia. The rate of transient unrecognized food allergy may be high and variable recognition of food allergy may explain some of the differences seen in food allergy prevalence.
Source: Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America - October 25, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Joan H. Dunlop, Corinne A. Keet Source Type: research