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.

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

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Dear all,

We are finally at the end of the long consultation work that was necessary to write the text of the work. Thank you for all your help!

The text includes all the proposals that you made during the comment phase on the individual questions, and summarises them in a positive way. We aim to propose our answers to the complex issues surrounding the matter. Please provide your feed-back using the track change system, and feel free to make any comments on a system of notes.

We will also expose this text to a public comment through the WAO website, in order to gather opinions from various stakeholders. We are interested to opinions the scientific community, healthcare professionals, individual FBOs and their organisations, patient associations and the general public. Please spread this possibility in your environment in order to gather the greatest possible interest.

This public consultation phase is expected to last 21 days from the date of publication of the site. We therefore ask you to provide your comments by 15th June, so that we can move forward and draft the final text to be submitted to the WAO Journal.

With many thanks in advance and best wishes,

Alessandro Fiocchi, chair, WAO Food Allergy Committee

Paul Turner, chair, WAO Anaphylaxis Committee