InformAll, communicating about Food Allergies

 

  

WP1: Risk communication issues in food allergy

Objectives:

  • Define the critical issues regarding effective communication and food allergies
  • Understand barriers to developing effective communication about food allergy
  • Identify potential cross-cultural and intra-individual differences in communication needs, taking due account of the diversity in European population regarding food allergenicity.
  • Identify members of the consortium who can provide food allergy information which will enable the development of guidelines to develop policy recommendations of direct relevance to risk regulators, the food industry, health workers and patient groups regarding effective communication about food allergy issues.

Leader:

  • Prof. Dr Lynn J Frewer, Department of Marketing and Consumer Behavior, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands

Partners:

  • Prof. dr. ir. Jacques Viaene, Prof. dr. ir. Wim Verbeke & Dr. ir. Renata Januszewska, Gent University, Belgium
  • Prof. Klaus G. Grunert & Assistant Prof. Joachim Scholderer, MAPP, The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
  • Erkka Valovirta, European Federation of Asthma and Allergy Associations (EFA), Turku Allergy Centre, Finland
  • Dr Sylvia Pfaff, EHI - The International Retail Network, Germany
  • George Chryssochoidis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
  • Dr Anna Saba, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione (INRAN), Italy
  • Dr Hans-Jacob Skarpeid, Dr Øydis Ueland & Dr Eliann Egaas, Norwegian Food Research Institute, (Matforsk), Norway
  • Dr Jesus Contreras, Pilar Cervera & Antoni Riera, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Dr Rebecca Knibb, University of Derby, UK
  • David Reading, Anaphylaxis Campaign, UK
  • Dr Susan Miles, Institute of Food Researck, UK
  • Kate Grimshaw, Allergy & Inflammation Science Division, Child Health, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton University, UK

Outcomes:

  • Feb 2003: Workshop to define communication issues in the food allergy arena.
  • Jul 2003: Interim sub-group meeting to draft report.
  • Oct 2003: Report defining current practices and problems in food allergy communication .
  • Jan 2004: Publication of web-version of the report.