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Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Food and Food Additives.
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Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Food and Food Additives. 2nd Ed. Edited by Dean D Metcalfe, Hugh A Sampson, and Ronald A Simon. (Pp 583; £75 hardback.) Blackwell Science, 1997. ISBN 0-865-42432-2.
Cricket and baseball both use a hard ball that can travel at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/hour), but there are many differences in how the games are played. Another transatlantic difference is the approach to individuals with suspected reactions to food. In North America, the recommended approach is to perform skin prick tests, followed by double blind placebo controlled food challenges, proceeding to dietary …