EFSA SEAFOOD ALLERGY WARNINGS REPORT
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for careful labelling about molluscs in food after a review highlighted even the tiniest amount could spark an allergic reaction. EFSA said: "There is little information on the lowest dose of mollusc allergen that can cause a clinical reaction," adding that in one study with dried snail, "reactions were observed in the low hundred-mg range." It added that mollusc allergenicity is not reliably reduced by food processing, with tropomyosin allergenicity being heat-resistant, ...
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