Food and Nutrition: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Food Allergies
News
- Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
- Newspaper Research GuideThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.
Organizations
- FAREFood Allergy Research & Education (FARE) works on behalf of the 15 million Americans with food allergies, including all those at risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis.
- Food Allergy Association of WisconsinThis volunteer group is made up of over 350 adults and families who are all living with severe and life threatening food allergies. We connect families and adults living with food allergies in the Madison and surrounding areas.
About Food Allergies
This guide suggests resources concerning topics related to food allergies, including treatment and safety.
Try searching these terms using the resources linked on this page: Food Allergies OR Food Hypersensitivity, Food Allergies AND Alternative Treatment, Food Allergies AND Children, Food Allergies AND Prevention, Food Allergies AND Restaurants, Food Allergies AND Safety Measures, Food Allergies AND Immune System.
Overview Resources-Background Information
- CQ ResearcherContains weekly in-depth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
- Opposing Viewpoint in ContextOpposing Viewpoints in Context provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
- FDA- Food AllergensThe Food and Drug Administrations portal on Food Allergens.
Books
Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy by ISBN: 9780231164849Publication Date: 2015-05-26
Food Allergies: A Complete Guide for Eating When Your Life Depends on It by ISBN: 9781421408446Publication Date: 2013-03-12
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by ISBN: 9781439199381Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Articles- Scholarly and Popular
- Academic SearchAcademic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted.
- Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)Covers a wide range of food products and production processes, food law and toxicology.
- PubMedIndexes leading journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
- Web of ScienceContains articles about a variety of topics. The unique "Cited Reference" search allows you to find all the papers that have cited a specific author or article. It is an easy way to follow the experts to find recent developments, responses, and even retractions.
- Health and Safety Science AbstractsCovers public health, safety, and industrial hygiene including aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. (has been absorbed by the Agricultural and Environmental Science Database)
Statistics
- Data-Planet Statistical DatasetsProvides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can search and view charts, maps, and rankings of time series at the country, state, county, MSA, postal code, and census-tract/block group levels. All of the data are drawn from authoritative sources (including the International Monetary Fund) and are citable. The product provides high-level summary information as well as detailed line item views. (Dates vary, updated continuously)