Questionnaire on food allergy for national Food and/or Health Authorities.
What this is all about
INFOSAN has agreed to help EuroPrevall collect international information on food allergy and is
therefore sending you the EuroPrevall questionnaire. EuroPrevall is an EU-funded project, which aims
to improve the quality of life for food allergic people.
To achieve this EuroPrevall will develop and spread new material on food allergy for use by food
allergic consumers, health professionals, food industries and food control authorities.
The first step to develop new material (e.g. website, brochures, leaflets, videos) is to find out what is
already available as well as to find out what the information need is. This is where we would like your
help.
Why your response is important
Your response is important because you are the only one who knows what your information needs
are! We can only make our new information material as good as the input we get from the people who
should use it.
How you can benefit from EuroPrevall
As new material EuroPrevall will mainly create a homepage with information for different target groups,
e.g. food control authorities. This homepage will contain the newest information on food allergy based
on what is already known and the new findings from the research activities in EuroPrevall.
The homepage will be freely available for translation into other languages than English. You can
benefit from EuroPrevall by using our material to bring awareness and new information about food
allergy out in your country.
You can find more information about EuroPrevall (e.g. the research activities) at www.europrevall.org.
How to fill out the questionnaire and where to send it
You can print out the questionnaire and fill it out on paper. In that case please send the completed
questionnaire to:
Jørgen Schlundt
Director
Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases
World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
You can also choose to fill out the questionnaire electronically. In that case please e-mail the
completed questionnaire to:
schlundtj@who.int
If you indicate in the questionnaire that you have information available on food allergy we would if
possible like to see this material. Please send the material to the above address.
You can contact us at the above address or e-mail if you have any questions regarding the
questionnaire. We would like to receive your answers before 23 June 2006.
Thank you for your help!
The questionnaire
If you want to fill out the questionnaire electronically you can copy and paste the tick box where
relevant: 
Nr Question
Organization details
1
Name of organization
Name of contact person
Contact details of contact person
International telephone number
E-mail address
4
Country
5
Language(s)
Relevance of questionnaire
6
Is your organization the national authority
responsible for food allergy in your country?
Answer
2
3
Yes
 (go to question no. 8)
No
 (go to question no. 7)
7
Please indicate the name and contact information of the responsible national authority:
Name of organization
Name of contact person
International telephone number
E-mail address
Available information on food allergy
8
Has your organization made information
Yes
 (go to question no. 9)
material on food allergy?
No
 (go to question no. 11)
(Either as part of general information on
allergy or as specific information on food
allergy)
9
Who is your material on food allergy made for?
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
General public
Food allergic people
Food producers
People serving food
Health professionals
Food control authorities
Others
(please specify)
10
Please indicate how the information on food allergy is available:
a
Written material such as leaflets, brochures
or books
Web page
Link to webpage:
DVD / Video
Educational material
Other (please specify)
b
c
d
e
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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No
No
No
No
No
No
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Yes

No

Yes
http://
Yes
Yes
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No
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No
No
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If you have information available on food allergy we would if possible like to see this
material. Please send the material together with the questionnaire.
Your information needs on food allergy
11 Do you have information needs on food
allergy?
12
Please, specify the information needs you
have?
Yes
 (go to question no. 12)
No
 (go to question no. 13)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If you have more please specify below.
13
Additional comments you want to bring to us?
Thank you for your cooperation in helping raising food allergy awareness!