Anaphylaxis drives call to add four allergens to mandatory labels

Key takeaways:

The four allergens are goat and sheep’s milk, buckwheat, peas-lentils and pine nut.

The call for mandatory labeling of these allergens is based on frequency, severity, recurrence and hidden exposure prevalence.

Goat’s and sheep’s milk, buckwheat, peas and lentils, and pine nut are allergens that could be added to the European mandatory labeling of foods list based on their presence in cases of severe food anaphylaxis, according to study data.

These findings were published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy .

Data were derived from Sabouraud-Leclerc D, et al. Clin Exp Allergy . 2025;doi:10.1111/cea.70130.

Xavier Van der Brempt

“Our results have a huge impact for clinicians: more than one in seven cases of severe food anaphylaxis are due to an allergen whos