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ReviewThe World Allergy Organization journal2014

Precautionary labelling of foods for allergen content: are we ready for a global framework?

Katrina J Allen, Paul J Turner, Ruby Pawankar, Stephen Taylor, Scott Sicherer, Gideon Lack, Nelson Rosario, Motohiro Ebisawa, Gary Wong, E N Clare Mills and 3 more

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Review in The World Allergy Organization journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Katrina J Allen *Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Allergy and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Paul J Turner *Section of Paediatrics, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Ruby PawankarDivision of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan.
Stephen TaylorFood Allergy Research & Resource Program, Department of Food Science & Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Scott SichererDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Gideon LackDivision of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, UK.
Nelson RosarioUniversity of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil.
Motohiro EbisawaDepartment of Allergy, Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, Sagamihara National Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Gary WongDepartment of Paediatrics and School of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
E N Clare MillsInstitute of Inflammation and Repair, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Kirsten BeyerDepartment of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunulogy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Alessandro FiocchiHospital Bambino Gesù, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
Hugh A SampsonDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Medical Research Council G1000758Medical Research Council MR/K010468/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergy appears to be on the rise with the current mainstay of treatment centred on allergen avoidance. Mandatory allergen labelling has improved the safety of food for allergic consumers. However an additional form of voluntary labelling (termed precautionary allergen labelling) has evolved on a wide range of packaged goods, in a bid by manufacturers to minimise risk to customers, and the negative impact on business that might result from exposure to trace amounts of food allergen present during cross-contamination during production. This has resulted in near ubiquitous utilisation of a multitude of different precautionary allergen labels with subsequent confusion amongst many consumers as to their significance. The global nature of food production and manufacturing makes harmonisation of allergen labelling regulations across the world a matter of increasing importance. Addressing inconsistencies across countries with regards to labelling legislation, as well as improvement or even banning of precautionary allergy labelling are both likely to be significant steps forward in improved food safety for allergic families. This article outlines the current status of allergen labelling legislation around the world and reviews the value of current existing precautionary allergen labelling for the allergic consumer. We strongly urge for an international framework to be considered to help roadmap a solution to the weaknesses of the current systems, and discuss the role of legislation in facilitating this.

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Allergen avoidanceAllergen labellingAnaphylaxisFood allergyLegislationMandatory labellingPrecationary allergen labelling

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PMID24791183
PMCPMC4005619

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