Presentation at Food Allergy Forum 2025

The 4th international conference of the Food Allergy Forum will focus on food allergen risk assessment and risk management to improve the protection of the food allergic consumer; allergenicity assessment to prevent allergies to new food products; and maintenance and optimisation of immune health to improve prevention and therapy.

Conference topics will include:

• Where are we? It’s been 2 years since we met at the previous conference, which we concluded with some future perspectives. Where are we now?
• True or not true? We often hear strong statements related to food allergies and allergens. What is true and what is not?
• Allergen management. A journey of a quarter of a century from the first inclusion of “the big 8” in the General Standard for the Labelling of Packaged Foods towards risk-based allergen management. Are we reaching the finish?
• Allergen analysis. Reference doses and action levels; has our search for ever more sensitive methods come to an end? And what challenges remain?
• Future foods. There may be many drivers for new foods, new food concepts or new food systems. What’s the impact regarding food allergies?
• Gluten and gluten free. Fashion, belief, hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, allergy, … What’s the reason and what are the implications?
• How to tackle food allergy? Prevention, disease management, or cure, where are the opportunities?
• What to expect? Is the food allergy landscape coming to rest? Or will new ripples, for instance due to climate change, grow toward major new challenges?