New Study Finds Consumers With Food Allergy Are Largely Unaware of U.S. Allergen Labeling Policies, Highlights Need for Precautionary Allergen Labeling

FARE, in collaboration with the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, published a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice highlighting that consumers with food allergy are largely unaware of current allergen labeling practices in the United States and that they purchase food products with certain allergen statements more often than others, despite the fact that none of these statements are regulated.; "This new research shows the confusion around PAL and what the different labels represent causing consumers with food allergy to make their own decisions about the safety of a product based on the wording in the label," said lead author, Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.