The main goal of food safety assessment is to provide reliable information on the identity
and composition of food and reduce the presence of harmful components. Nowadays, there …

Considerable advances have been made over the past century in the understanding of the
chemical hazards in food and ways for assessing and managing these risks. At the turn of …

Handling major hypersensitivity reactions (eg celiac disease) triggered by proteins of wheat
and other cereals is a challenging task for healthcare systems, legislative forces and the …

Electrochemical genosensors have undergone an enormous development in the last
decades, but only very few have achieved a quantification of target content in highly …

In the present work, three DNA sequences encoding wheat proteins (α2-gliadin, agglutinin
isolectin and thioredoxin h) were compared to trace gluten-containing cereals in food …

In the US alone, severe food-related allergic reactions account for an estimated 30,000
emergency room visits and 150 deaths per year-unsettling statistics for food product …

An overview is given of sensitization and allergic reaction on food, along with minimal
eliciting doses for selected allergens (milk, egg, peanut), followed by the legislative situation …

Individuals with allergies and intolerances to grain products rely on accurate food labelling
to prevent potentially life-threatening reactions. The aim of this study was to evaluate a …

QOL - Vol 5 Issue 3-4.indd Page 1 93 Ž. MARJANOVIĆ-BALABAN, ET AL.: METHODS FOR
DETERMINATION OF THE PRESENCE OF ALLERGENS IN FOODS QUALITY OF LIFE (2014) …