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LEAP study

The Telegraph needs to get a grip of the facts

17/03/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Dr James le Fanu's weekly roundup in today's Telegraph carries the following : Sue Hattersley, head of the department at the Food Standards Agency responsible for imposing the “bureaucratic nightmare” of new regulations complained of by 100 leading chefs and …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, Nuts, PoliticsTag: 14 major allergens, Addenbrookes hospital, allergen desensitisation, Daily Telegraph, Dr James le Fanu, EFSA, food fraud, Food Standards Agency, LEAP study, Professor Gideon Lack, restauranteurs, Sue Hattersley

Allergy Week – but not as we know it!

26/02/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

The week began with the extremely welcome news that the LEAP study, which had been on-going on at Guys's and St Thomas' Evelina Hospital for the last 5 years, has come up with exactly the results that we had all hoped that it would: that eating peanuts from an early age is likely …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Peanut allergyTag: dishwashers and the hygiene hypothesis, dishwashers increase allergy, Dr George du toit, Dr Hugh Sampson, Dt Rebecca Gruchalla, early avoidance of peanut, eczema and peanut allergy, Evelina hospital, inducing peanut tolerance, infant peanut consumption in israel, LEAP study, LEAP study on peanut tolerance, NEJM, New England Journal of medicine, Professor Gideon Lack, routes of allergic sensitisation

Excting allergy research projects

26/09/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

On Wednesday I went, for the first time, to the Food Standards Agency's annual presentation, this year focused on their work in the field of food allergy, and on the departure of the splendid Dr Andrew Wadge who has headed up the scientific arm of the FSA since 2000. (He pointed …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: allergens in prepacked foods, Allergy thresholds, BASELINE study, Dr Andrew Wadge, EAT study, Food Standards Agency, FSA, FSA research on food allergens, LEAP study, Professor Ian Kimber, TRACE study

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