According to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the occurrence of food allergies and associated anaphylaxis — a life -threatening rapid onset reaction — increased 18 % between 1997 and 2007 in the U.S.
Total number of people with life threatening food allergy in the researched countries* is: 46 Million and rising.
* The countries in the study are: Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Canada, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Finland.
