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Article: Animal models to detect allergenicity to foods and genetically modified products: workshop summary. (Mini-Monograph).
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Environ Health Perspect 111:221-222 (2003). [Online 21 January 2003]
Doi: 10.1289/ehp.5701 available via http://dx.doi.org/
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Respiratory allergy and allergy to foods continue to be important health issues. There is evidence to indicate that the incidence of food allergy around the world is on the rise. Current estimates indicate that approximately 5% of young children and 1-2% of adults suffer from true food allergy (Kagan 2003). Although a large number of in vivo and in vitro tests exist for the clinical diagnosis of allergy in humans, we lack validated animal models of allergenicity. This deficiency creates serious problems for ...