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Hieronder vindt u informatie over het InformAll project. Meer informatie over dit project, waar het NAN in latere fase als deelnemer is bij gevraagd, vindt u via onderstaande link (in het Engels). Een van de resultaten van dit project is het opzetten van een database over voedselallergenen met allerhande informatie over de klinische historie, en biochemische eigenschappen. De link naar deze database die publiekelijk toegankelijk is, staat verderop de pagina. 

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The European Union has commissioned a concerted action project to promote the provision of visible, credible food allergy information sources to a wide variety of stakeholders, including general consumers, the agro-food industry (including primary producers, manufacturers and retailers), allergic consumers, health professionals and regulators.

The project brings together clinicians, food chemists, social scientists, allergy patient groups, food manufacturers and retailers from across Europe, and from the USA.

It is funded under the 5th Framework programme of the EU through the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Key Action.

Full details of the project can be found on the project web site @ www.informall.eu.com

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ABOUT THE INFORMALL DATABASE

Welcome to the InformAll Database! This database is being developed with funding from the European Union (see www.informall.eu.com) and aims to supply credible information on allergenic foods. The final database (due to be completed by the end of 2005) will have:

Summaries about each food suitable for a wide readership together with Technical information for specialists or the interested layperson, which has been split into a section on the clinical characteristics of the allergy together with biochemical information about the components in foods that trigger allergies and are known as allergens. This information complements that available from other databases, most of which collect information on allergens especially their amino acid sequences.

The first release is now available publicly, and contains searchable technical information about plant foods. This will be followed by technical information on allergenic foods from animals (such as egg, milk etc.) together with the food summaries. These will be available later in the year.

Allergy research is a rapidly advancing area. There are always new reports of food allergies and allergens. Thus, information in this database is subject to a review process, which means there is a time-lag between a scientific publication appearing and a database entry being compiled (see details of plant foods to be added to the database).

Other information on food allergies can be found on www.foodallergens.info together with a web-portal leading to other websites with credible information on food allergies.