Baby Food and Infant Formulas

Mena et al 2012 report the development of  new competitive R5 ELISA which uses the extracting solution called UPEX (universal prolamin and glutelin extractant solution). The authors claim that the new assay produces  better results than the sandwich R5 ELISA for detecting gliadins quantitatively in hydrolysed foods, and may be used forcomplete gluten analysis in any kind of food. [1]

A study of Khulan et al. 2012 supports the hypothesis that undernutrition during gestation and infancy predisposes to ill health in later life. The  researchers suggest that micronutrient supplementation might be a cause of methylation of foetal genes which control the immune system. [1]