The allergenicity of food could be altered by several processing procedures. For various foods of animal and plant origin the available literature on this alteration is described. Investigations on hidden allergens in food products are also dealt with.

The Editor, I feel that Sawyer and Bennett (2006) imply that there is something intrinsically hazardous about natural rubber latex (NRL) gloves. The evidence shows this not to be the case. NRL gloves were used for many years in health care and laboratory work with only a rare incidence of latex allergy. The problem arose when the health care sector decided to adopt a policy of general glove use...

Exposure to fungi, particularly in water damaged indoor environments, has been thought to exacerbate a number of adverse health effects, ranging from subjective symptoms such as fatigue, cognitive difficulties or memory loss to more definable diseases such as allergy, asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Understanding the role of fungal exposure in these environments has been limited by met...

Fresh cheese was prepared from caprine milk by isoelectric precipitation as a model experiment for reducing the allergenicity of milk. After acidic precipitation of casein, the beta-lactoglobulin content in curd was determined by ELISA using monoclonal antibody (MAb-beta209). The beta-lactoglobulin content was very high in the fresh cheese obtained from heat-treated (85 degrees C) bovine or cap...

Background Numerous extensively hydrolyzed cow’s milk protein based infant formulas are commercially available for the dietary management of symptomatic cow’s milk protein allergic infants. The production process of extensively hydrolyzed formulas has been improved in the last decade to meet even stricter characteristics in term of peptide size and allergenicity. However, the extent of the hydr...

Biopesticides can be effective in controlling their target pest. However, research regarding allergenicity and asthma development is limited. We compared the ability of fungal biopesticide Metarhizium anisopliae (MACA) and house dust mite (HDM) extracts to induce allergic responses in BALB/c mice. The extracts were administered by intratracheal aspiration at doubling doses (2.5-80 μg protein) 4...

Allergy is a prevalent health problem in developed countries. With advances in genomic and proteomic technologies, there is a rapid increase in allergy-related data, including allergen sequences, allergic cross-reactivity, molecular structures, clinical measurements, and atmospheric concentrations. The more and more complex allergy data is fueling the need for advanced ways in information manag...

b-lactoglobulin (b-lg), the main whey protein fraction in bovine milk is a major allergen causing cow’s milk allergy. Immunological investigations of b-lg have reported several IgE-binding regions of the protein that were linked with allergic reaction. Most IgE epitopes are specific for surface features of the protein. However, no clear association of structural feature or function with allerge...