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Action needed – WAO consensus on the use and practice of precautionary allergen labelling (ACT-UP!): an international e-Delphi. Please send your comments by June 15th.

Posted in News by IFAN on 31st May 2025

Please see below and attached WAO document open for professional and public consultation. IFAN has been asked to respond and to disseminate widely. Please forward as needed. Please reply directly to A Fiocchi. alessandro.fiocchi@allegriallergia.net _____________________________________________________________________ Dear all, We are finally at the end of the long consultation work that was necessary to write the text […]

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World Eczema Day

To mark World Eczema Day 2024 which took place on 14 th September, the Irish Skin Foundation (ISF) and the Irish Food Allergy Network (IFAN) have launched a newly updated ‘20 Questions about allergy & eczema answered by the experts at IFAN’ information booklet. The relationship between eczema and food allergy can be complicated so […]

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Over diagnosis of cow’s milk protein allergy.

Data on more than 1300 births was analysed.  Read the free access article published in June 2024 here. “CMA overdiagnosis is common in early infancy. Risk factors include high primary care practice-based low-allergy formula prescribing and maternal report of antibiotic prescription during pregnancy.”  

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Cork research team publishes milk and egg ladder evidence

Click here for the open access original article

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Trusted food allergy information and myth busting.

Posted in News by IFAN on 14th June 2024

Food allergy myths are statements commonly shared about the management, treatment and risks of food allergy that are not based on fact and current science. At CHI, the Allergy Team has good evidence that busting food allergy myths improves the food allergy quality of life of families living with food allergy.  IFAN wants to share […]

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