Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management
Abstract
Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy (by patients and health practitioners) and allergens (by industry) is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. iFAAM will develop evidence-based approaches and tools for MANAGEMENT of ALLERGENS in FOOD and integrate knowledge derived from their application and new knowledge from intervention studies into FOOD ALLERGY MANAGEMENT plans and dietary advice. The resulting holistic strategies will reduce the burden of food allergies in Europe and beyond, whilst enabling the European food industry to compete in the global market place. Our approach will build on e-Health concepts to allow full exploitation of complex data obtained from the work in this proposal and previous and ongoing studies, maximising sharing and linkage of data, by developing an informatics platform “Allerg-e-lab”. This will enable us to (1) Extend and integrate existing cohorts from observation and intervention studies to provide evidence as to how maternal diet and infant feeding practices (including weaning) modulate the patterns and prevalence of allergies across Europe (2) Establish risk factors for the development of severe reactions to food and identify associated biomarkers (3) Develop a clinically-validated tiered risk assessment and evidence-based risk management approach for food allergens for allergens in the food chain (4) Develop clinically-relevant multi-analyte methods of analysis suited to allergen management across the food chain Stakeholders will be integrated into iFAAM to deliver harmonised integrated approaches, including RISK ASSESSORS AND MANAGERS managing population risk, the FOOD INDUSTRY who manage allergens to ensure consumer safety, HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS to provide food allergy management plans and dietary advice and ALLERGIC CONSUMERS to manage individual risk.
keywords food allergen and allergy diet and prevention infancy and maternal food chain, consumers, food industry
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Project staff
Sabine Baumgartner
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Sabine Baumgartner
sabine.baumgartner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97314
BOKU Project Leader
01.03.2013 - 01.03.2017
Kathrin Lauter
Dr. Kathrin Lauter MSc.
kathrin.lauter@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97313, 97356
Project Staff
01.03.2013 - 01.03.2017
BOKU partners
External partners
MoniQA Association - International Association for Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Food Supply Chain
Roland Ernest Poms
partner
European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
Franz Ulberth
partner
International Life Sciences Institute Europe - AISBL
Athanasia Baka
partner
European Information Ressource AISBL
Paul Finglas
partner
Srebrnjak Children´s Hospital
MIrjana Turkalj
partner
Technical University of Denmark
Charlotte B. Madsen
partner
Copenhagen University Hospital, Allergy Clinic
Lars K. Poulsen
partner
Odense University Hospital
Carsten Bindslev-Jensen
partner
Medical Prognosis Institute A/S
Steen Knudsen
partner
INRA-CRJ, Food Allergy Laboratories UIAA
Jean-Michel Wal
partner
Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety -ANSES
Amelie Crepet
partner
Eurofins Analytik GmbH
Bert Pöpping
partner
Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Kirsten Beyer
partner
German Allergy and Asthma Association
Sabine Schnadt
partner
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
Stefan Vieths
partner
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nikolaos Papadopoulos
partner
Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland
Sigurveig T. Sigurdardottir
partner
University College Cork
Jonathan Hourihane, Audrey DunnGalvin
partner
The Irish Anaphylaxis Campaign Limited by Guarantee
Regina Cahill
partner
Hylobates Consulting S.R.L.
Luca Bucchini
partner
Allergy Clinic JSC Perspectives
Ruta Dubakiene
partner
TNO Niederlande
Geert F. Houben, Astrid G. Kruizinga
partner
Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam
Ronald van Ree
partner
Wageningen University and Research Centre, Food and Biobased Research
Harry Wichers
partner
Medical University of Lodz
Marek L. Kowalski
partner
Servicio Madrileno de Salud
Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas
partner
Néstle Research Center
Petra Lutter
partner
University Hospital Zürich, Allergy Unit, Dept of Dermatology
Barbara Ballmer-Weber
partner
FoodLife International Ltd.
John Gilbert, Hamide Senyuva
partner
Leatherhead Food Research Association
Martin Wickham
partner
University of Southampton
Graham Roberts
partner
The University of Manchester
Clare Mills
coordinator
Unilever UK Central Resources
Rene Crevel
partner
Indoor Biotechnologies Limited
Martin D. Chapman
partner
Kings College London
Gideon Lack
partner
Anaphylaxis Campaign
Lynne Regent
partner
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Steve L. Taylor
partner