Food Safety in Focus: Advancing Allergenicity Risk Assessment Strategies
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: novel foods; food safety; allergenicity; risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Allergenicity risk assessment (RA) is becoming increasingly relevant to maintaining the rapid pace of food innovation, ensuring food is safe for consumption and does not contribute to the burden of food allergies. However, current strategies for allergenicity RA are based on (outdated) Codex Alimentarius guidelines.
In its recent editorial, EFSA has highlighted key research and innovation needs related to supporting future regulatory science linked, among other connections, to allergenicity RA. Moreover, recent scientific advances call for the revision of allergenicity RA methodologies to ensure they remain fit for purpose (F4P) and support better-informed decision making.
This Special Issue, entitled “Food Safety in Focus: Advancing Allergenicity Risk Assessment Strategies”, invites authors to submit recent research and review articles which introduce the topic at hand, provide an overview of its current status, and share future perspectives.
Dr. Estefanía Noriega Fernández
Guest Editor
Dr. Antonio Fernández Dumont
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- allergenicity
- cross-reactivity
- de novo sensitisation
- clinical relevance
- in silico testing
- in vitro testing
- in vivo testing
- innovative proteins
- new approach methodologies (NAMs)
- artificial intelligence
- risk assessment
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