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
$6 million toward food allergy research and education, including
helping to find ways to lessen the effects of food and peanut
allergy and to find solutions 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.
Scientific Advisory Council Members |