date:Oct 31, 2014
A UK survey reveals that just under half of products labeled with a warning may contain allergen actually contain no trace of it.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) scrutinized about 1,000 packaged food samples carrying allergy warnings 'may contain X' or 'not suitable for someone with X allergy' .
FSA food allergy research manager Sarah Hardy noted that the number of samples with advisory labeling but no detectable hazelnut or peanut was just below 50%.
The survey found that products with wa