Allergy Matters

Future developments in allergy prevention: a matter of integrating medical, natural and social sciences.- The Medical and Molecular Context.- Induction and regulation of allergen-specific IgE.- Preventive vaccination against allergy: maternal allergen immunization protects offspring.- Controlling processing in complex food systems: a potential route to food-allergy prevention.- Plant protein families as a basis for predicting the allergenicity of food proteins.- Can cross-reactivity studies enable generic allergy prevention?.- The Food Production Chain and Novel Foods.- The food production chain and novel foods: introduction.- Novel foods and novel processing techniques as threats and challenges to a hypersensitive world.- Tracking and tracing for allergen-free food production chains.- Prediction of the potential allergenicity of novel protein.- Production of hypoallergenic plant foods by selection, breeding and genetic modification.- In silico prediction of potential allergenicity of proteins according to the FAO/WHO guidelines with the help of Allermatch™.- The Living and Occupational Environment.- Low-pollen-allergen ryegrasses: towards a continent free of hay fever?.- Strategies for prevention and mitigation of hay fever.- Prevention of occupational allergies.- People and Society.- Allergy between the ears?.- Economic impact of allergy prevention.- Communication needs and food allergy: an analysis of stakeholder views.- Allergy prevention: consumer perspectives.- The patient’s voice in allergy prevention.