Allergies
Mandatory Allergne Labelling in Wines?
Filed in archive Food Allergies , Living with Allergies by ruth on August 1, 2006
Mandatory Allergne Labelling in Wines?
Some people say they have alcohol allergies, and therefore completely defer taking alcoholic beverages. However, in most (or all?) of the times, it's not the alcohol they are allergic to, but other substances in alcoholic beverages.

Some wines, for example, have traces of egg whites and isinglass, a substance obtained from the bladders of fish. These are used in clarifying wine, particularly the more expensive varieties. And though these substances are modified in the process which might render them non-allergenic, the end-product is not totally devoid of them, thus posing a danger for people with very high sensitivities.

There is a currently a petition lobbied to the US Congress for the mandatory labelling of allergens in wine. Read more about it from the Monterey Herald.

Permalink: Mandatory Allergne Labelling in Wines?
Tags: wine  egg  allergies  allergy  wines  allergne+labelling  labelling+wines  mandatory+allergne 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/30734
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Mandatory Allergne Labelling in Wines?:

  • Currently 9.00/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 9.00 out of 2 vote(s) cast.
 
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!