Food allergy awareness champions: Improving food safety standards in online food procurement for people with food hypersensitivities

There have been changes more recently in how people commonly acquire and consume food at home. The practice of ordering online food delivery including ready-to-eat meals, drinks, and snacks has increased immensely. The COVID-19 pandemic has likely been a factor in this change in practice as it’s now the case that one in four consumers thinks about using meal delivery services on a regular basis. The aims of this project were: to improve understanding and knowledge of the behaviours of FHS citizen scientists buying ready-to-eat (takeaway and delivered) food online. To learn more about the visible procedures and practices of individual food businesses offering online food delivery. To use accredited methods to determine the presence of certain allergens in selected samples of food procured by participants.