Marketing Orders: April 2025
USA: Almond Producers Vote to Continue Federal Marketing Order On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that almond producers in California voted to continue their marketing order program in a referendum held in December 2024. Almond producers voted in favor of continuing the marketing order, administered by the Almond Board of […]
Food Safety Update: April 2025
Brazil: Plant Protection Products Update Brazil has notified the World Trade Organization of a draft resolution updating the maximum residue limits (MRLs) of various substances. The MRL for acetamiprid is updated to 0.7 mg/kg in macadamias and pecans, while the MRL for lambda-cyhalothrin is updated to 0.9 mg/kg in macadamias. More information Colombia: Phytosanitary […]
Sustainability Update: April 2025
EU: Parliament Votes to Delay Application of Due Diligence and Sustainability Reporting Rules On April 3, 2025, the European Parliament voted to postpone the application dates for new EU laws on due diligence and sustainability reporting requirements. The Parliament’s vote comes after the Council approved its negotiating mandate in late March. Member states will have […]
Trump Engages in Tit-for-Tat With China While Backtracking on Other Tariffs
China sets tariff on US goods at 84%; Trump raises tariff on China to 145% As noted by the INC last week, US President Donald Trump announced expansive new tariffs on April 2, 2025, including a baseline 10% tariff that took effect on April 5 and country-specific tariffs for around 60 countries that took effect […]
Trump Announces Sweeping New Tariffs
China, the EU, and other countries are expected to retaliate US President Donald Trump announced expansive new tariffs on April 2, 2025. A baseline 10% tariff will be applied to all imports into the US, with higher rates being applied to around 60 countries, including 34% for China, 20% for the European Union, 27% for […]
March 2025 News Brief
INC Confirms Congress Keynote Speaker: Toni Nadal “Building a Champion’s Mindset: Lessons From the Court” Tennis coach, Ambassador of Rafa Nadal Academy and Rafa Nadal’s mentor and coach for 27 years, in his keynote speech, Toni Nadal will talk about dealing with adversity, attitude, simplicity, self-demand, respect, commitment, self-improvement, coping with failure, and not glorifying […]
Maternal supplementation with α-tocopherol inhibits the development of offspring food allergy, H1R signaling and ultimately anaphylaxis early in life
Food allergy has had a rapid rise in prevalence, and thus it is important to identify approaches to limit the development of food allergy early in life. Because maternal dietary supplementation with α-tocopherol (α-T), an isoform of vitamin E, during pregnancy and nursing increases neonate plasma levels of α-T and can limit neonate development of […]
Enhancing the diagnostic accuracy of the IgE crosslinking-induced luciferase expression (EXiLE) method for walnut allergy
Background: Walnut (Juglans regia) frequently triggers nut allergies in the United Kingdom and in the United States, with increasing cases in Japan. While oral food challenges (OFCs) are the definitive method for diagnosing these allergies, they pose the risk of symptom provocation, necessitating safer alternative tests. Our aim here was to evaluate the diagnostic utility […]
The prevalence of peanut-triggered food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome in a prospective cohort of infants introducing peanut in the first year of life
Background: Since the early introduction of peanut to prevent IgE-mediated peanut allergy, other case series have suggested an increased incidence of peanut-triggered Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES). Data on the prevalence of peanut-induced FPIES in prospective cohorts are lacking. Methods: The PeanutNL cohort is a prospective cohort that included infants at risk of peanut […]
Basophil Activation Test for the Improved Diagnosis of Peanut and Tree Nut Allergy
Purpose of review: As an ex-vivo test of allergic effector cell activation, basophil activation testing (BAT) to allergen enables quantification of the in-vivo IgE-mediated allergic response. BAT thus holds promise in the diagnosis and monitoring of peanut and tree nut allergies. Recent systematic analyses and expert recommendations support a role for BAT in the diagnosis […]