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Article: A new benchmark for reliability in food allergy testing; testing for all four IgG sub-fractions leads to over 90% reproducibility, verified by blind split-sampling results.
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Changing food habits have led to rapid growth in the incidence of food allergies.
Food allergies have been linked with migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), arthritis, ADHD in children and many life-threatening conditions resulting from a compromised immune system.
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An accurate food allergy test can greatly improve the lives of people suffering from undetected allergic reactions. However, recent reports indicate that the reliability of test results varies greatly from lab to lab.
Medical labs licensed in the USA must meet stringent operational criteria. However, reproducibility of test results isn't ...