Objective
Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy (by patients and health practitioners) and allergens (by industry) is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. iFAAM will develop evidence-based approaches and tools for MANAGEMENT of ALLERGENS in FOOD and integrate knowledge derived from their application and new knowledge from intervention studies into FOOD ALLERGY MANAGEMENT plans and dietary advice. The resulting holistic strategies will reduce the burden of food allergies in Europe and beyond, whilst enabling the European food industry to compete in the global market place.
Our approach will build on e-Health concepts to allow full exploitation of complex data obtained from the work in this proposal and previous and ongoing studies, maximising sharing and linkage of data, by developing an informatics platform “Allerg-e-lab”. This will enable us to
(1) Extend and integrate existing cohorts from observation and intervention studies to provide evidence as to how maternal diet and infant feeding practices (including weaning) modulate the patterns and prevalence of allergies across Europe
(2) Establish risk factors for the development of severe reactions to food and identify associated biomarkers
(3) Develop a clinically-validated tiered risk assessment and evidence-based risk management approach for food allergens for allergens in the food chain
(4) Develop clinically-relevant multi-analyte methods of analysis suited to allergen management across the food chain
Stakeholders will be integrated into iFAAM to deliver harmonised integrated approaches, including RISK ASSESSORS AND MANAGERS managing population risk, the FOOD INDUSTRY who manage allergens to ensure consumer safety, HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS to provide food allergy management plans and dietary advice and ALLERGIC CONSUMERS to manage individual risk.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Coordinator
M13 9PL Manchester
United Kingdom
Participants (42)
1105AZ Amsterdam
10117 Berlin
68583 Lincoln
1180 Wien
3400 Hillerod
41061 Mönchengladbach
EC4Y 0DY London
28020 Madrid
2595 DA Den Haag
T12 YN60 Cork
63225 Langen
6708 PB Wageningen
1200 Bruxelles
SO17 1BJ Southampton
10561 Athina
8006 Zurich
90419 Lodz
08431 Vilnius
101 Reykjavik
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5000 Odense
10000 Zagreb
2800 Kgs Lyngby
75007 Paris Cedex 07
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KT22 7RY Leatherhead
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21079 Hamburg
1049 Brussels
2970 Horsholm
BA12 9AF Warminster
94700 Maisons Alfort
00100 Roma
1030 Wien
06800 Ankara
1050 Bruxelles
WC2R 2LS London
1800 Vevey
GU14 6BU Farnborough
Cork
SW7 2AZ London
3052 Parkville
6009 Crawley
2145 Westmead Sydney
5000 Adelaide