Epitope: Allergy Scanner

Epitope helps people with food allergies, and the parents and caregivers who look after them, check food labels faster and keep the records an allergist asks for. SCAN Point your camera at a barcode. Epitope looks the product up in Open Food Facts, and in USDA FoodData Central when Open Food Facts has no ingredient list, and compares its declared allergens and ingredient list with the allergens on your profile. No barcode, or no record? Photograph the ingredient list and Epitope reads it on your phone. It reads English and Spanish labels. Every result shows why it was flagged and the ingredient list it was based on, so you can check it against the package in your hand. CROSS-REACTIVITY WATCH Tell Epitope about related sensitizations such as birch pollen, latex or alpha-gal, and it points out foods that share a protein family with them. YOUR OWN WATCH LIST Add anything else you avoid,…