Food for Thought seminar - FSA's Food Allergy and Intolerance Research Programme - Dr Paul Turner

In this seminar, recorded 4 August 2020, Dr Paul Turner provides an introduction to food allergy in the UK, and the impact of the Food Standards Agency's Food Allergy and Intolerance Research Programme over the past 10 years at a national and global level. Dr Paul Turner is a Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy & Immunology at Imperial College London, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research, funded by the Medical Research Council, European Commission, NIHR and UK Food Standards Agency among others, focusses on the pathophysiology of severe allergic reactions to food, and how this impacts upon allergen risk management and the use of precautionary allergen labelling. He is a member of the Food Standards Agency's Science Council, and leads the EAACI Taskforce on Food Allergen Thresholds. Paul leads the food allergy desensitisation programme at St Mary's Hospital, London; the team was awarded the Best UK Clinical Team by Allergy UK in 2018. He was also recipient of the 2020 PhARf Award, awarded by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI). He is current chairperson of the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology Paediatric Allergy Group, and the World Allergy Organisation Anaphylaxis Committee.