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As a way of mitigating possible false negative results in searching for foods in our food allergy checker, we have added a service of researching foods that are reported to not have any of your allergens. When you search and find a food that does not appear to have your allergens an email is sent to me that lets me know to research to see if none of your allergens are present in the food. A new table has been added to the database to track our research results and improve our messaging for foods that have been checked.

We want to help people with food allergies in their research of foods to find if a food is safe for them. Any ideas for improvements to the food allergy checker would be welcome comments. Currently as a start up we are not experiencing high volume of usage of the food allergy checker so some of the features like the Report tab of the checker really are not quite yet helping as much as they could if the crowd sourcing concept took off. (The idea behind the Report tab is that if a food is known to contain an allergen that is not listed in the ingredients on the labelling of the food our customers can add the allergen. This would make fewer false negatives by including the research our customers as a group are doing in their daily usage of the checker.)

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