Summary
Food allergy—an adverse health effect arising from a specific immune response that occurs, reproducibly, on exposure to a given food—can affect people's lives in a number of ways, impacting routine life activities and sometimes diminishing social interactions and potentially causing severe health effects. Although much is known about this complex disease, many fundamental questions remain, and recommendations by public health authorities may be limited by scarce or inconsistent research findings. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an expert, ad hoc committee to examine critical issues related to food allergy. The resulting report, Finding a Path to Safety in Food Allergy, collects and evaluates the scientific evidence on the prevalence, origins, diagnosis, prevention, and management of food allergy and makes recommendations to policy makers, industry leaders, and others to bring about a safe environment for those with food allergy.

http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2016/finding-a-path-to-safety-in-food-allergy.aspx

Authors:
Virginia A. Stallings(Chair), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Katrina Allen, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
A. Wesley Burks, University of North Carolina School Of Medicine
Nancy R. Cook, Harvard Medical School
Sharon M. Donovan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stephen J. Galli, Stanford University School of Medicine
Bernard Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
Gideon Lack, King's College London Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Ann S. Masten, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Jose M. Ordovas, Tufts University
Hugh A. Sampson, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Scott H. Sicherer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Stephen L. Taylor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Xiaobin Wang, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health