A Counterintuitive Way to Prevent Peanut Allergies
Here is a very counterintuitive way to prevent peanut allergies. But, though it may be shocking, it is exciting, because it is a randomized, controlled study whose results need to be taken seriously. . . .
The study had two sections. The firts followed 530 infants who, though they had no signs of peanut allergies, were at high risk for peanut allergies. These babies were divided into two groups. The first was given 6 grams of peanut protein a week, divided over three or four meals, until they were five years old. That’s the equivalent of about 24 peanuts a week. The second group of babies avoided peanuts until they were five years old.
The shocking result was that while 13.7% of the children who avoided peanuts developed peanut allergies, only 1.9% of the kids who were exposed to peanuts did.
In the second part of the study, the researchers followed 98 infants who were already showing early signs of having a peanut allergy. But the results were the same even for them: 35.3% of the kids who avoided peanuts went on to develop peanut allergies, but only 10.6% of the kids who ate peanuts did.
The authors arrived at the surprising conclusion that early introduction of peanuts significantly decreases the risk of developing peanut allergies in children who are at high risk.
N Engl J Med 2015;372:808-13
The real cause of the peanut allergy has been a protected trade secret – which is why vaccines are causing the peanut allergy epidemic and most doctors don’t realize it. Peanut oil must be labeled in food but not pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical companies can self-affirm GRAS ingredients which do not need to be listed as an ingredient and become a protected trade secret, protected by international law. Nothing is ever submitted to the government. Canadian laws and American are about the same. The oil used in pharmaceuticals is highly refined so most peanut allergic people can usually EAT it and not have a problem. (Severely allergic people could still die). When the oil is injected along with an aluminum adjuvant, that tiny bit of peanut protein creates a peanut allergy in the unlucky kid who got it. It is not enough protein to contaminate every shot just a few in the batch.
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Certain unrefined oils can contain significant quantities of protein, as high as 300 micrograms per gramFootnote2,Footnote3 (µg/g = parts per million). In contrast, highly refined oils contain very little protein, with published data showing low µg/g values or lower.
In Canada, sections B.01.009 (4) and B.01.010 of the Food and Drug Regulations require that whenever peanut oil is present as an ingredient, or component of an ingredient, in a food, the source of the oil, “peanut”, must always be identified. The enhanced allergen labelling regulations do not change this requirement and therefore all peanut oil, whether highly refined or not, will have to identify its source in all cases.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/…/oil-refined-huile-raffinees…
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Notice that it only says must be labeled in FOOD.
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Self-affirmed GRAS under fire again as PEW highlights ‘loophole that appears to have swallowed the law’
By Elaine Watson, 27-Jul-2012
There are serious weaknesses in a system that allows firms to self-affirm the safety of food ingredients without the approval or knowledge of regulators, according to researchers conducting a probe into the nation’s food additives law.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/…/Self-affirmed…
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And the same self affirmed GRAS regulation is allowing pharmaceutical companies to secretly decide on ingredients they use in vaccines and other pharmaceuticals.
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Under U.S. law, an excipient, unlike an active drug substance, has no regulatory status and may not be sold for use in food or approved drugs unless it can be qualified through one or more of the three U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval mechanisms that are available for components used in food and/or finished new drug dosage forms.
These mechanisms are:
1. determination by FDA that the substance is “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) pursuant to Title 21, U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 182, 184 or 186 (21 CFR 182, 184 & 186);
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And, yes, excipients are part of vaccines:
“Many regulatory agencies, in addition to defining an adjuvant based on its immune-enhancing biological activity, provide a regulatory and/or legal classification for the adjuvant component of a vaccine (e.g., excipient, active ingredient or constituent material).”
http://www.who.int/…/ADJUVANTS_Post_ECBS_edited_clean_Guide…