Novel and Emerging Food Allergens—Immunological Characterisation
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 745
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; food allergy; molecular allergenomics; food immunology; novel food processing; in vitro diagnostics technology
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Interests: food allergies; seafood allergies; molecular allergology; allergy diagnostics; allergen immunology; antibody cross-reactivity; allergen characterisation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled “Novel and Emerging Food Allergens—Immunological Characterisation”, will explore the chemical/biochemical and immunological aspects of identifying and understanding new and emerging food allergens and their roles in food sensitisation and allergy development. As the global food landscape continues to evolve in the climate change era, ensuring public safety through comprehensive allergen characterisation is increasingly important for future allergy treatment and management, as well as food allergen control, in food manufacturing.
This Special Issue will gather pioneering research and in-depth reviews involving antibody-based diagnostics, therapeutic interventions, the impacts of microbiome interactions on food allergies, dietary adjuvants, food-based immunomodulatory agents, and the discovery of immunological biomarkers, as well as studies on the molecular and immunological characteristics of food allergens. By bringing together diverse research works, this Special Issue will foster interdisciplinary collaboration and advance the field of allergy research, ultimately improving outcomes for individuals with food allergies.
Scope:
- Immunological methods for allergen characterisation;
- Role of gut microbiota in modulating immune responses to food allergens;
- Studies linking immunological findings with clinical outcomes in food allergy management;
- Current regulatory frameworks and guidelines for the immunological characterisation of food allergens;
- Innovations in immunological research tools and techniques for allergen characterisation;
- Case studies demonstrating the practical use of immunological methods in food safety and allergen management;
- Prospective insights into the future of immunological research in food allergen characterisation.
Dr. Nanju Alice Lee
Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Lopata
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- allergenicity
- risk assessment
- intervention
- novel allergens
- emerging allergens
- microbiome
- food safety
- public health
- clinical implications
- regulatory perspectives
- antibodies
- allergy treatment
- allergy prevention
- food allergen management
- food processing
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