3. The risks
As we have seen, the proportion of allergic individuals in the population is increasing, due to a lack of awareness of the real risk, as well as to errors made in infant food diversification.
For the allergic patient, treatment is based first and foremost on prevention, essentially through the avoidance diet.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has examined the thresholds at which allergens are known to cause a reaction in a sensitized person (table
2
), as well as the existence of an analytical method for assessing the presence of the allergen at these thresholds in the food
As we shall see below, this situation is evolving, thanks in particular to the existence of highly sensitive...
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