Food Allergy
Subtitle: Adverse Reactions to Food and Food Additives
Contributors: Dean D. Metcalfe (Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780632046010
Subjects: Dietetics & nutrition; Medical; Consumer Health; Allergies; Food Science; Immunology; Technology / Food Industry & Science; General; Nutrition; Food Additives; Food Hypersensitivity; Food allergy; Health aspects
First sentence: An allergic response is thought to be an aberrant, misguided, systemic immune response to an otherwise harmless antigen.