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            Food Industry and Allergies

            Published by Dr Josรฉ Costa at 27/06/2021

            Often people ask me what they should do when they see a “๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ” label.โฃ
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            My first question to them is, how many variations of that wording have they seen?โฃ
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            • In a study done many years ago, the researchers found over 20 different ways of writing an allergy warning in food.โฃ
            • They asked people how they would act, depending on what was written, and the variability was incredible.โฃ

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            ๐’๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ, ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฆ๐ž.โฃ
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            Several other studies went to see what was the actual variation of allergen concentration.โฃ
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            What did they find?โฃ

            • In products with a warning, 6.5 to 93% contained an allergen.โฃ
            • In products without a warning, 11 to 53% contained an allergen.โฃ

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            In reality, there is still a significant risk of a not labelled food, to contain a substantial amount of allergens.โฃ
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            But why is it that the food industry has this massive variability in warnings they use and still have so much potential cross-contamination of allergens?โฃ
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            The problem tracks back to political parties, the way they are funded or the individual politician’s financial interest.โฃ
            What I am saying might be controversial, but let’s look at what is known.โฃ
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            Most of you have never heard of the “๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ“.โฃ

            • This is the most powerful lobby within the ๐˜Œ๐˜œ โ€“ the ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐›๐ฒ.โฃ
            • They have offices inside the ๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต and manage to block all resolutions that can lead to improvement of food quality when this affects the profit the food industry has.โฃ
            • It is easy to see what they have done so far, as most are widely published. (the list is far too long for me to place it here).โฃ

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            In theย ๐˜œ๐˜š๐˜ˆย alone, in the 2014 elections, the food industry donatedย $๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐Œ, in total, to both parties.โฃ
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            This comes to the ๐’๐ฌ I have spoken about before.โฃ
            Those, also calledย ๐„๐ƒ‘๐ฌ (๐˜Œ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜‹๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ), look into the dose needed to cause an allergic reaction and the percentage of allergic people who will react.โฃ
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            So a ๐๐Ÿ or ๐„๐ƒ๐Ÿ means that the potential cross-contamination in a particular food will lead to 1% or fewer allergic people reacting to that food.โฃโฃโฃ
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            The best collaboration done so far is the one between the food industry inย Australia, theย Governmentย andย Allergy Organizations.โฃโฃโฃ
            (see the attached table to see the ED for the 14 main allergens)โฃโฃโฃ

            Such an agreement does not exist in theย ๐˜Œ๐˜œย at present.โฃโฃโฃ
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            The hope for theย ๐˜œ๐˜’, at the moment, is that the so called “๐๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐š’๐ฌ ๐‹๐š๐ฐ” will lead to a change in this practice.โฃโฃโฃ
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            But we need to go deeper than simple labelling, look into manufacturing practices, and avoid allergens altogether.โฃโฃ
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