A new method for removing allergens from peanuts means help could soon be on the way for the roughly 2.8 million Americans with a potentially life-threatening allergy to the popular food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
Although the number of actual peanut allergy sufferers is low, the measures taken to reduce the risk of exposure have had wide and far ranging consequences. Allergy free peanuts would radically change the food industry landscape in the US.