FDA Okays First-Ever Qualified Claim Urging Food Consumption To Cut Allergy Risk

FDA last week approved the first-ever qualified health claim urging consumption of a food at an early age, in this case peanuts, to reduce a future allergy risk and signaled the agency backs more research on how to introduce allergenic foods to prevent and treat food allergies. “This is the first time the FDA has recognized a qualified health claim to prevent a food allergy,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said when the agency approved the qualified claim last Thursday (Sept...