Update on threshold doses of food allergens: Implications for patients and the food industry

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-219

  Moneret Vautrin, Denise Anne ^a   Kanny, Gisèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

Food allergen; Food labelling; LOAEL; NOAEL; Reactive threshold

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OIL;

ALLERGENICITY; ANAPHYLAXIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG; FLOUR; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PACKAGING; MILK; PEANUT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SESAME; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOM; WHEAT;

ALLERGENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY; PEANUT HYPERSENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2542418969     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130832-200406000-00014     Document Type: Review

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