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Nestle UK Recalls Batch of Kitkat Bites Pouch Bags Over Allergy Concerns
Apr 18, 2017Nestle UK has recalled a batch of its KitKat Bites and asked people with nut or peanut allergies to be especially vigilant following incorrect packaging of the chocolates. The company is recalling KitKat Original Milk Chocolate Bites ...
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Nestle Health Science to Invest in Therapies for Food Allergies
Nov 11, 2016Nestlé Health Science announced that it will make an equity investment of $145m in US-based Aimmune Therapeutics, which corresponds to a 15% stake after completion of the transaction. The parties also entered into a strategic ...
Tags: Food Allergies, Nestle
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High Fibre Diet Could Rid Allergies, Monash University Study
Jun 23, 2016Most would not think that a diet lacking in fibre might be the cause of allergies, but success from Monash University have found evidence supporting this linkage. Studying allergies, scientists at Monash University in Melbourne discovered ...
Tags: fibre, allergies, immune system
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Probiotic Treatment Potential for a Long Term Cure for Peanut Allergies to Be Developed
Jan 29, 2015A probiotic treatment for peanut allergy has been successfully trialled by Australian researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. The researchers said their findings showed that there was potential for a long term cure ...
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Stop Shop Supermarket Removed M&M Brand Milk Chocolate Theater Box From Store Shelves
Sep 23, 2014The Stop & Shop Supermarket has removed M&M Brand Milk Chocolate Theater Box from its store shelves, following a recall by Mars Chocolate North America as it may contain peanut butter. M&M's Brand Milk Chocolate Theater Box, 3.4 oz, ...
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Treating a Peanut Allergy with Oral Immunotherapy Changes The DNA of The Immune Cells
Feb 25, 2014Treating a peanut allergy with oral immunotherapy changes the DNA of the patient's immune cells, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. The DNA change could ...
Tags: Peanut Allergy, food allergies, allergic reaction, Oral Immunotherapy
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Children and Adolescents with Peanut Allergies Could Benefit From Treatment with OIT
Feb 25, 2014Children and adolescents with peanut allergies could benefit from treatment with oral immunotherapy (OIT), in which peanut protein is consumed in increasingly larger amounts on a regular basis to build up tolerance, according to a phase 2 ...
Tags: Peanut Allergies, peanut protein, mild with oral itching
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A New Therapy for Peanut Allergy Has Been Successful
Feb 14, 2014New peanut allergy therapy shows 84 per cent success A new therapy for peanut allergy has been successful in the majority of the 99 children who took part in a trial conducted by researchers at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK. ...
Tags: Peanut, allergy, peanut immunotherapy, enzyme
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Dr.Sarah Denny Saw Her Share of Life-Threatening Reactions That Happen with Food Allergies
Jan 17, 2014As a pediatrician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Sarah Denny has seen her share of the life-threatening reactions that can happen with food allergies. That didn't make it any less scary when her son Liam, then 18 ...
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More Than One Million Children Living in America Today Suffer From Peanut Allergy
Nov 21, 2013Editor's Note: Since the publishing of this article, Dr. O'Shea now claims that he never wrote The Doctor Within, even though the book is directly attributed to him at the following website, and even lists his name as the direct contact: ...
Tags: peanut oil, vaccines, allergy, epidemic
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A New Study on Peanut Allergy Is Expected to Make Food Warning Labels Clearer
May 21, 2013A new study on peanut allergy, which is being conducted at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, is expected to make food warning labels clearer for consumers in the UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) had commissioned the trial, and ...
Tags: Food Labeling, New Peanut
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Booths' Own-Brand Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts' Packaging Is Transparent
May 2, 2013Booths’ own-brand Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts’ packaging is transparent. Booths argued to the FSA that the see-through packaging would have been enough to warn customers with peanut allergies about what the bags contained, ...
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CFS of The Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Issued a Health Alert
Mar 29, 2013The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a health alert, urging people not to consume pre-packaged mixed soybean paste manufactured in Korea as it may contain peanut, which is ...
Tags: food safety agency, food, peanut
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Euro Foods Was Fined 6,000 Euro and Ordered to Pay 12,000 Euro Costs
Feb 25, 2013Ethnic food manufacturer and wholesaler Euro Foods was fined 6,000 Euro and ordered to pay 12,000 Euro costs after being found guilty of potentially fatal food adulteration in court recently (February 12). Curry question: Does your ...
Tags: Euro Foods, food manufacturer, food