The Editorial Board of the AOAC Food Allergen Community Newsletter is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of 2016. The following are the articles featured in this number:

  • “Dairy” in coconut products.

  • Food allergen method dissemination: great accomplishments but the road ahead is still long.

  • FSIS publishes food allergen guidelines for industry.

  • Food allergen labeling regulation in Brazil.

  • Proposed rule to establish “gluten-free” labeling for fermented hydrolyzed and distilled foods.

  • Multi-allergen quantitation and the impact of thermal treatment in industry-processed baked goods: a comparison of LC-MS/MS and ELISA methods.

  • 9th Workshop on Food Allergens Methodologies.