Parents of children with a history of the potentially life-threatening allergic reaction anaphylaxis often ignore precautionary labels on foods because they find them unhelpful and confusing, research ...

As a new study reveals, the majority of people find allergen labels confusing. What's the problem and what should be done? When researchers from The Netherlands evaluated consumer understanding of ...

When Ina Chung, a Colorado mother, first fed packaged foods to her infant, she was careful to read the labels. Her daughter was allergic to peanuts, dairy, and eggs, so products containing those ...

HOW well can you trust labels regarding food allergy? Not very much, if a recent audit of a sample of Irish bakeries, chocolate makers, convenience food, snack, meat and fish businesses are concerned.

"May contain" statements and related warnings of possible allergens in food products often create confusion for consumers. In a recent study of adult consumers in the Netherlands, many consumers ...

A brewery has recalled some of its bottled and canned beers, because labels did not adequately spell out the risk of allergens. Three Tuns, based in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, said the recall was ...

More than 65 per cent of packaged food and even more of snack food has some form of allergy caution, such as "made in the same factory as products containing peanuts", says Professor Katie Allen, lead ...

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in the UK has published an allergen guidance paper that aims to curb excessive use of precautionary ‘may contain’ labelling. The trade association said that current ...

We will explore the different situations in which this approach can be adopted and consider some of the common stumbling blocks we see businesses encounter. We discuss the legal requirements for ...