Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical manifestations of food allergic disease / Tamara T. Perry, Amy M. Scurlock, Stacie M. Jones -- Exploring current and novel methods for the detection and diagnosis of food allergy: the clinical approach / Adriano Mari, Enrico Scala -- The big eight foods: clinical and epidemiological overview / Suzanne S. Teuber ... [et al.] -- Molecular and immunological responses to food / Victor Turcanu, Gideon Lack -- The relationship of t-cell epitopes and allergen structure / Samuel J. Landry -- Vaccines and immunotherapies for future treatment of food allergy / Wesley Burks, Ariana Buchanan, Laurent Pons -- Animal models for food allergy / Ricki Helm -- Approaches to the detection of food allergens, from a food science perspective / Carmen D. Westphal -- Predicting the allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified organisms / Richard E. Goodman, John Wise -- Bioinformatics for predicating allergenicity / Steven M. Gendel -- Structural database for allergic proteins (sdap) / Catherine Schein, Ovidiu Ivanciuc, Werner Braun -- Hypoallergenic foods beyond infant formula / Peggy Ozias-Akins, Maria Laura Ramos, Ye Chu -- The effects of processing methods on allergenic properties of food proteins / Soheila Maleki, Shri Sathe.