Colophony as a marker for fragrance allergy in the general European population.

Abstract

Colophony is not used as a fragrance ingredient. However, colophony is a well-established marker of fragrance contact allergy(2-4) . Colophony was therefore included as a fragrance allergy marker in our recent paper in BJD on contact allergy in the general population (prevalence 1.0%; 95%-CI 0.6%-1.3%)(5) . When including colophony as a fragrance marker in the article on fragrance contact allergy(1) together with fragrance mix I (FM I) in the True test containing an evernia prunastri (oak moss) with a high content of atranol and chloratranol or fragrance mix II (FM II) or any of the individual materials in either FM I or FM II or Myroxylon pereirae (MP) or sesquiterpene lactones, some information in table 5 of this article(1) change slightly according to the numbers given here: This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. (Less)