Accurate allergy labelling is a pertinent issue for food manufacturers. Food Standards Australia and New Zealand states that between four and six percent of children and one to two percent of adults suffer from serious food allergies.
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Doodles’ dairy dupe: product recall
Doodles Creek has recalled its Caesar Dressing from independent grocery stores and delis due to non-compliant labelling.
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Confusing wording may lead to increased food allergy risks
New research has found that the wording of particular allergy warning labels may lead to different perceptions of risk for the same danger.
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Asian chocolate bars recalled
Beng Beng chocolate bars, sold in Asian grocery stores across the country, are being recalled due to the presence of undeclared allergens.
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Allergy warnings confusing and overused: report
More than 65 percent of packaged foods, and an even greater proportion of snack foods, come with some form of allergy caution, a recent research report has found.
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Allergy awareness is everyone’s responsibility: Hodgkinson
To mark the beginning of Food Allergy Awareness Week, Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson encouraged food businesses and consumers to be innovative in promoting allergy awareness.
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Allergy information portal now available for food manufacturers
Food Standards Australia New Zealand, together with government, industry and consumer groups, has launched a new portal providing manufacturers with information on how to manage food allergies.
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Food-scanning app now identifies gluten-free products
A filter to allow users with coeliac disease or a gluten intolerance to avoid foods containing gluten has been added to food label-scanning app, FoodSwitch.
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Australian researchers cracking down on food allergies
A group of 20 leading researchers have joined to research and understand food allergies and intolerances in Australia
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Worlds largest food allergy study backed by Unilever
Some of the worlds largest food companies and governments have backed a groundbreaking study into food allergeies.
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GoScan hopes to improve life for food allergy sufferers, those on diets
GoScan, a mobile phone app for those wanting quick, easy-to-understand, detailed information about the foods they’re eating has been launched.
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“May Contain” warnings … What do they really mean?
The injudicious use of 'may contain' warnings and the proliferation of their usage has resulted in the creation of yet another hazard for the allergy sufferer, writes Food Assist's Ron Cossen.
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Allergy free milk produced by cloned cow
Allergy free milk could soon become a reality after New Zealand scientists successfully produced hypoallergenic milk by using a genetically modified cow.
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Nestlé baby formula undergoes independent testing following complaints
A popular Nestlé baby formula will undergo independent testing to determine if it is safe, after parents reported babies were becoming sick from consuming it.
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Drinking chocolate recalled; milk content not declared
Valvorp Fine Foods has recalled its 1963 Drinking Chocolate nationally, after failing to declare the product contained milk.
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The problem with gluten is…
One in every hundred Australians are affected by Coeliac disease, but 75 per cent are undiagnosed, meaning that about 160,000 Australians have coeliac disease but don’t yet know it.
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Ask and you shall receive – smart consultation leads to better scienc
Worldwide, and especially in Australia, much valuable science is being wasted or stalled through what is known as technology rejection – the public’s hostile reception of new technologies or scientific advice.
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Folic acid reduces childhood cancer rates
Folic acid has been proven to reduce the chances of neural tube defects (NTDs) in unborn babies, and now new research has found it could also reduce the most common types of cancers in children.
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UNSW, Korea join forces to reduce allergens during food and drink processing
Australian researchers have identified processing techniques which will minimise the adverse effects of allergens in milk and other food products.
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Undeclared “meat glue” used in countless American products
First it was “pink slime” horrifying consumers in the US, now it’s emerged that millions of Americans are also consuming “meat glue” each week.
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