COT Secretariat
Food Standards Agency
Aviation House
125 Kingsway
London WC2B 6NH
Tel: 020 7276 8522
cot@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
The COT was asked to assess the scientific evidence available since 1998 concerning avoidance versus exposure to peanut during early life and possible influences on the development of sensitisation and allergy to foods, with particular reference to peanut. The aim was to consider whether the recommendations to mothers that were issued by the COT in 1998 should now be amended or remain in place.