Food allergy is an area of intense research interest.

The EU has commissioned a concerted action project to promote the provision of visible, credible food allergy information sources to a wide variety of stakeholders, including general consumers, the agro-food industry (including primary producers, manufacturers and retailers), allergic consumers, health professionals and regulators.

The project brings together clinicians, food chemists, social scientists, allergy patient groups, food manufacturers and retailers from across Europe, and from the USA.

It is funded under the 5th Framework programme of the EU through the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Key Action.

New on this site:

InformAll Newsletter 3, Oct 2005 (700K pdf)

Agenda for October 2005 - now available

October 2005: the InformAll partners are meeting for the last time in Athens on 24-26th October 2005. As with previous events, PhD students can present their research at this meeting. This is an excellent opportunity for young scientists to get together to talk about their work, and to meet the best researchers in food allergy community, from across the EU. Those interested in this opportunity should complete an Application for Support and an Abstract, and send these to Professor Wróblewska. The closing date for applications is 30th June 2005

January 2005: The first release of the InformAll database is now available at foodallergens.ifr.ac.uk. It contains searchable technical information about plant foods and will be followed by version 2 later in 2005, which will also contain technical information about allergenic foods of animal origin together with summaries suitable for allergic and non-allergic consumers alike.