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Originally Posted by Nancy1999

The first one is behind a paywall, and I couldn't access it, it was done by Hills and while it still might be true, I do think manufacture driven research could possibly be more biased. By that I mean, leave out parts that don't give the full picture. However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't consider it. The second one seems to be independent from the manufactures and talks about foods used in diagnostic elimination trials.

I use to be very familiar with reading research and even designing experiments. I could look at an experiment and see how it was flawed, but I haven't done this in quite a few years, and now I struggle through the research. I figure if I have a hard time of it, so do 60% of the people here. If you could just summarize the findings it would be so helpful.

What exactly did the second study show? Was it that exotic forms of protein such as venison should be used in food elimination trials because it reacts to beef antibodies? Lol, I feel so stupid!

My read: That OTC novel protein (venison) foods could be contaminated with other proteins possibly due to loose quality control or co-packing and are not suitable for conducting food elimination trials.