On 22 February 2018 a workshop for the ImpARAS COST Action (Cost action 1402, www.imparas.eu) was held in Brussels for 20 representatives from different food allergy stakeholder groups (risk assessors and risk managers (public, EFSA, FSA), allergic patient groups, food lawyers, Industry, scientific community).
The ImpARAS working group on risk assessment
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Early February a one-day symposium was held on allergen cross contamination organized for Dutch food business operators by the Dutch VMT periodical on food technology.
An audience of 150 people from a broad range of industry, retail and service providers illustrates the importance that is attached to the issue.
The symposium gave
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EFSA organized the first Risk Assessment Risk Assembly, with a view to stimulate new partnerships in food safety research to safeguard public health and highlighting the importance of public funding. The Assembly was a dynamic and interactive event that attracted 200 participants from 40 countries, including funders and policy makers
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The overall goal of SRP program line 1 is to fill in major research gaps that hamper the global application and implementation of a quantitative guidance for precautionary labelling by food companies. Two years ago TNO and the partners agreed to several key research topics: food consumption patterns for allergen
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In the period from November 2017-March 2018, three new manuscripts were published in the field of food allergy (co-)authored by the TNO Food Allergy team.
The first paper is discussing the importance of risk reduction due to therapy for peanut allergy.
Shreffler WG, Baumert JL, Remington BC, Koppelman SJ, Dinakar C,
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