Welcome to the ALLERRISK website

ALLERRISK is a project funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO). It is part of the research programme “Science for a Sustainable Development” (SSD). The programme SSD is composed of 8 priority research areas: Energy, Transport and mobility, Agrofood (of which the ALLERRISK project is part of), Health and environment, Climate (including Antarctica), Biodiversity (including Antarctica and the North Sea), Atmosphere and terrestrial and marine ecosystems (including Antarctica and the North Sea) and Transversal Research.

Project title

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY FOR CONTROLLING THE ALLERGEN ISSUE IN THE BELGIAN FOOD AND CATERING INDUSTRY

Coordinator: ILVO

Unit Technology and Food
Marc De Loose
Els Daeseleire
Wim Reybroeck
Céline Platteau
Isabel Taverniers

The mission of ILVO consists of the execution and coordination of policy-supporting scientific research and its associated services, with a view to sustainable agriculture and fisheries in relation to economical, ecological and social perspectives. Emphasis is laid on food safety items in the research group dealing with this project.

Partner 2: University Ghent

Unit Food Chemistry and Human Nutrition Food 2 Know Bruno De Meulenaer
Bart Devreese Tatiana Cucu

The Unit Food Chemistry and Human Nutrition focuses her research on the chemical behaviour of foods and food ingredients and the impact of this behaviour on human health. The research of the Laboratory of Protein Biochemistry and Protein Engineering is dedicated to the mass spectrometric analysis of proteins and peptides and to proteomics.

Partner 3: University Liege

Centre for Analysis of Residues in Traces Laboratory of Food Analysis Guy Maghuin-Rogister
Edwin de Pauw Marie-Louise Scippo Cédric Bourgeon

In the Centre of Analysis of Residues in Traces, the fundamental laboratory research is dedicated to molecular recognition. The behaviour of biological molecules is studied both theoretically and experimentally and the most important tool in the laboratory is the mass spectrometer.

Partner 4: University Antwerp

Department of Immunology, Allergology and Rheumatology
Didier Ebo
Wim Stevens
Chris Bridts

The Department of Immunology, Allergology and Rheumatology focuses on the development of new diagnostic tools which can be helpful in the assessment of allergenicity of native and recombinant allergens.