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Eating out on holiday: the allergy checklist  28th July 2025

Going on holiday is all about relaxing but for people with serious allergies, dining out in unfamiliar locations can bring added stress.
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Flying with food allergies: new review confirms commercial flights are much safer than you might think  22nd July 2025

For anyone living with food allergies—or caring for someone who does—the thought of experiencing a reaction at 30,000 feet can understandably trigger serious worry. People are well aware that help is far from being immediately available in the air, and
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Our statement regarding the inquest of Benedict Blythe  22nd July 2025

Anaphylaxis UK offers our condolences and heartfelt support to the family and friends of Benedict Blythe who was just five years old when he tragically died at school on 1st December 2021. 
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Rise in home-based food businesses 22nd February 2021

There has been a 44% increase in home-based food businesses since the start of the first lockdown, according to a new centralised online registration system used by nearly 200 local authorities, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed. The FSA

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New study finds that fatalities due to food anaphylaxis are rare and the rate of fatalities is decreasing 18th February 2021

A new study, commissioned and funded by the Food Standards Agency and Medical Research Agency, has found that despite hospital admissions increasing for food-induced anaphylaxis, deaths as a result were very rare with the rate decreasing during the 20-year period

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New Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines announced 12th February 2021

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). Sir Munir is a clinical pharmacologist and geneticist who currently holds the David Weatherall

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Remembering Pat Schooling 9th February 2021

It is with great sadness that we have to report the death on January 20th of Pat Schooling, the Director and moving spirit behind Action Against Allergy.  Pat was 93. Action Against Allergy was founded by Amelia Nathan Hill in

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Julianne Ponan has joined the Anaphylaxis Campaign as an Ambassador 4th February 2021

Julianne will work with us to educate, inform and campaign as a high profile entrepreneur who lives with anaphylaxis. Julianne Ponan (31) didn’t start out wanting to be an entrepreneur. She began her career in finance and took her first

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Julianne Ponan has joined the Anaphylaxis Campaign as an Ambassador 4th February 2021

As an ambassador Julianne will work with us to educate, inform and campaign as a high profile entrepreneur who has lived with anaphylaxis since childhood. Julianne Ponan was a toddler when she had her first anaphylactic attack. At nursery after

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Psychological Service Needs for Food Allergy 3rd February 2021

Please take part in the international survey on Psychological Service Needs for Food Allergy headed by Dr Rebecca Knibb at Aston University in collaboration Dr Chrissie Jones, Dr Helen Brough, Dr Linda Herbert, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Centres in the UK,

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Response to Editorial in the BMJ (18 January 2021) 22nd January 2021

We really welcome the Editorial in the BMJ (18th January 2021)-  “Vaccinating against Covid 19 in People who report Allergies.” Click here to read the editorial The Campaign has had an unprecedented number of calls to our helpline from allergic

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Statement regarding death of Ellen Raffell 20th January 2021

We are saddened to learn of the tragic death of Ellen Raffell, aged 16, who sadly died on 31st October 2019. We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to her family at this difficult time. Following the inquest on

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