Relative Risk of Peanut Allergy across the Globe; Where Toxicology Meets Immunology
نویسندگان
1 Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
2 Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
4 Exponent, Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety, Washington, DC, USA
5 Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
6 Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
7 Food Data Analysis Section, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Canberra, Australia
8 Environmental Health Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, BC, Canada
9 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
10 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
11 Gibb Epidemiology Consulting LLC, Arlington, VA, USA
12 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
13 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
14 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
15 CSIRO Food and Nutrition Flagship, North Ryde, Australia
16 Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
17 Occupational and Environmental Health Division, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
18 INTERTEK, Oak Brook, IL, USA
19 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
20 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
doi
10.22038/apjmt.2016.6879چکیده
In December 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the first ever report on the estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, which included diseases related to chemical exposures in foods such as peanut allergy. In the report, the burden of disease related to peanut allergies was measured for the European, American and West Pacific Regions. The report showed that unlike other food-related chemical exposures, peanut allergies are far more common in the European and American Regions than in the West Pacific Region. In this commentary we tried to inform physicians and public health workers, and to raise awareness about peanut allergies to facilitate future discussions. Although the WHO report on the estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases indicates a possible geographical difference in global peanut allergy prevalence, further studies need to compare the relative risk of peanut allergies among individuals of different racial backgrounds in one defined population.
