Estudo prospectivo de artigos, patentes e softwares voltados à alergia e intolerância alimentar no Brasil

Prospective studie of papers, patents and softwares towards allergies and food intolerance

Abstract

Allergie and food intolerance represents a problem that affects public health in part of the population. The adverse reactions manifested on the body may appear such as simple itching or sneezing but severe symptoms could also be shown such as anaphylactic shock which may be fatal. The labeling of food may present as a solution to bring foward infomation of the ingridients on the product offered in the Market and allows a better choice. Nevertheless the labeling is composed of diverse information, the can confound and drive away the attention of consumers about the potentially allergic components. The purpose of this paper was examine the prospects of the scientific and tecnological production about allergies and food intolerance from academic bases and tecnologichal databases of patent and softwares to avalueted national panorama. The result suggests excelent scientific production on the subject, in spite of the unsignificant brazilian tecnological production on allergies and food intolerance. There are only 4 records of patents filed and granted on the brazilian intelectual property agency (INPI) by brazilian owners and none granted patent on international level. No software or apps registered has been found on the subject. Thus this paper identified a lack of tecnology and suggests new studies and reseach that might motivate the product development for allergic consumers.