Risk Assessment of Food Allergens. Part 2: Review and establish threshold levels in foods for the priority allergens

Knowledge of thresholds constitutes a critical requirement to assessing the risk from allergens, as they are a characteristic of the hazard that allergens present to the food-allergic population.

An expert committee of The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concurred that the benchmark dose/probabilistic hazard assessment approach aligned most closely with the requests of the Codex Committees. After extensive discussion, the expert committee reached a consensus on reference doses (RfD) for priority allergenic foods, meeting the criterion for HBGV that they should reflect a range of exposure without appreciable health risk.

The full report is available here: https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2946en