- May contains/contains food allergen labelling needs improvement
- The adoption of the new EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU was welcomed by EFA as a positive step to enhance the prote ...
- EFA "May Contain/Contains" Food Allergen Labelling Event
- Location: European Parliament - Jòzsef Antall (JAN) building, 6Q1 room Date: Wednesday, 19th September, 2012 from 18:00 to 20:30 Hosting MEP: Mrs.Renate SOMMER MEP (r ...
- EFA and EU Policy Update (Summer 2012)
- This summer EFA has been busy preparing for a busy autumn, but also replied on behalf of allergy and respiratory patients to a European Commission Consultation on the subject of climate change in Euro ...
- Food Labelling Event: You are invited!
- EFA is pleased to invite you to the upcoming event “May Contain/Contains – Food Allergen Labelling” to be held at the European Parliament on the 19th of September 2012 from 18:00 to 20:30, kindly host ...
- Red meat allergy
- Background: We have observed patients clinically allergic to red meat and meat-derived gelatin. Objective: We describe a prospective evaluation of the clinical significance of gelatin sens ...
- New food labelling regulation
- After almost three years of negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the final text of the new Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers i ...
- Member News: Allergy UK appoints new Chief Executive
- 2012 will be an exciting year for EFA member Allergy UK, which is pleased to announce the election of Jim Bennett as its new Chief Executive. Having worked in the charity sector for over 17 years, J ...
- EU Policymakers and the European Allergy Community Joins EFA
- Brussels, 22 November 2011 - The statistics speak for themselves: 1 in every 2 Europeans will suffer from an allergy by 2015, but what's worse is that their chronic condition is very likely to be unde ...
- Association Asthme & Allergies France launches new website
- Association Asthme & Allergies has launched a new interactive website. The site is a collaborative initiative which gives people with asthma and/or allergy, their families/relations and health pro ...
- Live-saving decisions at the European Parliament on food labelling
- BRUSSELS, 14 June 2010 - EFA together with the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) highlight the importance of the plenary vote at the European Parliament on the food label ...
- EU Commission proposal for regulation on Food labelling
- In its proposal for regulation on "provision of food information to consumers", the European Commission proposes that all food containing allergenic substances must be labeled, whereas in the current ...
- First Allergy Cookbook published by EFA
- The Pulmonary and Allergy Patients Association of Slovenia have published the first allergy cookbook in the style of the Belgian ‘Fondation pour la Prevention des Allergies’ (FPA)’s ...
- New EU food labelling Directive enters into force at last!
- The new labelling rules for foodstuffs in the EU will enter into force 25 November 2005. Following a successful campaign by EFA and our members, the directive aims to ensure that all ingredients in fo ...
- Food Allergy Patients in Europe want to know what they eat
- 17th May 2003 - Food Labelling. An estimated 4 % of the adults and 8 % of the children in EU suffer from food allergy. EFA, the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Asso ...
- Adverse Reactions to Food
- Leaflet Provides food allergy patients and the parents of food allergic children with accurate scientific information that is in agreement with the viewpoint expressed by the subcommittee on Advers ...