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...body to allergens like peanuts by training the immune system to make peace with them. Most food allergies - whether to peanuts, eggs, milk or shellfish - are a result of the immune system misidentifying a food as a dangerous toxin. The body wages war with the invader, and the by-product is an allergic reaction - anything from a minor itch or swelling to a severe asthma attack, which in extremely rare cases and if left untreated can lead to death. Immunotherapy is designed to build up the body's tolerance to such "toxins" by gradually increasing patients' exposure to them over...
...comes to food allergies, many American parents - as well as the government and the food industry - prefer to play it safe. The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, which went into effect in 2006, calls for a zero-tolerance policy, meaning that manufacturers must declare whether their products contain even the tiniest amounts of allergens. Given that modern food flavorings and additives contain so many components, it's unusual to find a food product that has no trace amounts of allergens, even if the main ingredients do not contain them. "Nearly 30% to 40% of food recalls...
...financial crisis, one in which irresponsible politicians, not bankers, are the main source of economic turmoil. Across the developed world, sovereign states have amassed potentially unsustainable mountains of debt. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecasts that by 2011 the ratio of government debt to gross domestic product - the main measure of a state's financial health - will reach 100% in the U.S., up from 62% in 2007. That's almost as large as Greece's burden today. Ireland's debt burden is expected to triple over that same period to 93%, while the U.K.'s could double...
...BERTOFT, of the Swedish Consumer's Association, on the European Union's approval of the use of thrombin, a product that can glue pieces of meat together to make a single slab...
While many of us were preoccupied with cursing Windows Vista, Microsoft was busy developing a lineup of stellar non-Windows products, including the wildly popular Xbox game consoles and the Bing search engine, which is already averaging more than 3 billion queries a month. But the most underappreciated product in Microsoft's vast portfolio, the Zune digital media player, is about to roll all these products into one handy little phone that catapults Microsoft ahead of Apple, Google, Palm and BlackBerry's maker...