Article: How ?275 food allergy tests 'feed on fear and could be health hazard'; Worthless? A food intolerance test under way.

Byline: Jenny Hope

COMMERCIAL testing for food intolerances is 'feeding on fear' and could endanger people's health, a major inquiry says.

It found 'highly inconsistent' results from tests costing up to ?275 that experts condemned as having no diagnostic value.

Altogether 183 'intolerances' were found among researchers who had just one medically-confirmed allergy and one food intolerance between them.

The investigation by consumer watchdog Which? throws the spotlight on a multi-million-pound industry selling tests that are unregulated, or self-regulated by practitioners.

An astonishing 27million Britons claim to be intolerant ...

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