TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) — Responding to concerns that food labels aren’t doing enough to alert consumers to the presence of allergens, or that the labels are just plain confusing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hosting a public hearing Tuesday on what it can do to improve things.
“If you go down the [...]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2008) — Together with colleagues from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy and the Center for Allergy and Environment (ZAUM) of the Technische Universität München, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have pinpointed a major gene for allergic diseases.
The gene was localized using cutting edge technologies for examining the whole human genome [...]
Barry Callebaut USA, LLC, is recalling “ Kroger Value Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips” due to undeclared milk.
The product was sold in Kroger stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The product is in 12-oz. bags with UPC 11110-86603 and “sell by” date of May 30, [...]
This is another study which contradicts the conventional advice of complete abstinence from dairy products. Again, it is a small study and eggs were the focus, but it does raise the question of a slow introduction of dairy to overcome the body’s reaction to cow’s milk protein. The Star-Ledger reports:
Children allergic to eggs or milk [...]
To accurately assess your level of allergic response to dairy products, ask your doctor to perform an IgE test.
This simple blood test is far more accurate than the RAST tests of the past, and will indicate the specific level of sensitivity in reaction to an allergen, such as cow’s milk protein. Several tests, taken periodically [...]
Here is a new cookbook that provides very tasty, nutritious recipes that are allergy free. That means not only dairy free, but also nut free and egg free as well! So no matter what allergy you have, any of the recipes in this book will leave you feeling delighted at the dinner table without a [...]
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