Please click on the section below to learn more about the NPB's Peanut and Food Allergy Research and Education Initiatives

Overview
America’s Peanut Farmers care very deeply for consumers. The National Peanut Board (NPB) and all the U.S.A. peanut farmers and families we represent do not want anyone ever to be harmed by our products.  In fact, at its inception, the original Board concluded that if one person became ill by consuming our products, it was one too many. The NPB made a commitment to do as much as possible to mitigate food allergy—peanut allergy in particular.
 
To that end, the National Peanut Board has allocated nearly $4 million toward food allergy research and education, including helping to find ways to lessen the effects of food and peanut allergy and to create a vaccine for peanut allergy sufferers.  We are excited and encouraged by the potential of some of this research work and how it might help allergy sufferers. 

The committed research of the National Peanut Board’s Scientific Advisory Council and the Board’s library of food allergy studies helps guide the National Peanut Board’s efforts to help find solutions to peanut allergy issues as well as provide education and guidance to food service institutions, restaurants, schools, manufacturers, retailers and the industry at-large.

About the National Peanut Board’s Scientific Advisory Council

The NPB created the Scientific Advisory Council by coordinating and assembling leading researchers from the United States, Canada and the U.K. to provide ongoing counsel to the National Peanut Board on food allergy issues.  The various academic and medical experts comprising the Scientific Advisory Council are dedicated to furthering research and education on food and peanut allergy.  They offer advice and provide input that will best guide the National Peanut Board’s efforts to help find solutions to peanut allergy issues.  NPB holds two Scientific Advisory Council summits each year to facilitate information exchange, foster communication and discuss cutting-edge research. 

Members of the Council are get invited to speaking engagements throughout the year to educate consumers, manufacturers, foodservice operators and other professionals on the facts surrounding peanut allergies.