{"id":17443,"date":"2021-05-26T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:01:59","slug":"sesame-to-be-included-in-list-of-food-allergens-on-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/26\/sesame-to-be-included-in-list-of-food-allergens-on-food-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame to Be Included in List of Food Allergens on Food Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sesame seeds are used in many products from being sprinkled\non burger buns to being ground into sesame seed paste, which is also called\ntahini. Approximately 0.23% of children and adults in the United States are\nallergic to sesame and have reactions to sesame ranging from hives to\nanaphylactic shock. Until now, sesame was not one of the major allergens that must\nbe named in plain language on the ingredient labels of processed foods. On\nApril 23, 2021, President Biden signed a law making sesame the ninth major\nallergen that must be listed clearly on the ingredient label of foods. The\nother major allergens are milk, eggs, wheat, fish, shellfish, tree nuts,\npeanuts, and soy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     All products that\nuse sesame seeds or items derived from them will have to be explicitly labeled\nafter January 1, 2023. Passage of this law will make it easier for those\nwith a sesame allergy to identify products containing sesame. Currently,\naccording to FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education), consumers may see\nterms like benne seed, tahini, gomasaio, halvah, tehina, and sim sim on\nproducts containing sesame. In approximately 18 months, these products, and\nothers containing sesame will have to have a statement on the label that\nindicates the common or usual name of the major food allergen followed by the\nfood source in parentheses in the list of the ingredients. For example, the\ningredient label for packaged hummus containing tahini, would say \u201ctahini\n(sesame).\u201d The manufacturer could also add \u201cContains sesame\u201d although this is\nnot required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren CM, et al. Prevalence and severity of sesame allergy\nin the United States. JAMA Network Open <\/em>2019;2(8)e199144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food allergy advocacy win: the president signs the FASTER\nAct and makes sesame a major allergen. Kids with Food Allergies. https:\/\/community.kidswithfoodallergies.org\/blog\/sesame-allergy-and-food-allergy-research-supported-by-faster-act<\/a>.\nApril 23, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sesame allergy. FARE. https:\/\/www.foodallergy.org\/living-food-allergies\/food-allergy-essentials\/common-allergens\/sesame<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD Sesame seeds are used in many products from being sprinkled on burger buns to being ground into sesame seed paste, which is also called tahini. Approximately 0.23% of children and adults in the United States are allergic to sesame and have reactions to sesame ranging from hives to anaphylactic shock. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17445,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions\/17445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}