POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access
Platform of food allergens in Argentina
Claudia Gonzalez1*, María Cristina Lopez2
From Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Meeting 2011
Venice, Italy. 17-19 February 2011
The Platform of Food Allergens was formally created in
Argentina in April 2009. It is a multidisciplinary discus-
sion forum formed by professionals from different gov-
ernment institutions such as the National Institute of
Agricultural Technology (INTA), National Institute of
Industrial Technology (INTI), National Institute of
Foods (INAL); School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
(Buenos Aires University), School of Exact Sciences (La
Plata University); members of the Argentine Allergy and
Clinical Immunology Association and the “Forum of
parents of allergic children”, medical doctors from the
Children’s Hospital “Ricardo Gutierrez”, and an impor-
tant number of food industry companies. The aims of
the Platform, as a non profit organization, are:
• To anticipate future demands, since this issue is still
a vacancy in Argentina.
• To collaborate with the regulatory authorities in
enhancing the legal frame of the declaration of food
allergens in prepackaged foods.
• To provide the food allergic population with infor-
mation and guarantees at the time of the selection of
foods.
• To provide the food industry with information and
guidance for food allergen management. In order to
achieve these challenges, the platform was organized in
four working groups:
“Management of Food Allergens in the Food Industry”
“Detection Methods of Allergens in Foods” “Legal
Frame of Food Allergens” “Clinical Issues of Food Aller-
gies” These four groups work independently and also in
mutual collaboration, in order to cover the entire spec-
trum of requirements. The objective of this presentation
is to show some of the activities and achievements,
which these working groups have obtained since the
Argentinean Platform was created.
Author details
1National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Strategy Area of Food
Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2National Institute of Industrial
Technology, Cereals and Oilseeds, San Martín, Argentina.
Published: 12 August 2011
doi:10.1186/2045-7022-1-S1-P16
Cite this article as: Gonzalez and Lopez: Platform of food allergens in
Argentina. Clinical and Translational Allergy 2011 1(Suppl 1):P16.
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1National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Strategy Area of Food
Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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