About the Authors

Manuel Hitzler

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department of Product Safety, Berlin, Germany

Otto Majdic

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Medical University, Vienna, Austria

Guido Heine

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Allergy-Center-Charité, CCM, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Margitta Worm

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Allergy-Center-Charité, CCM, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Grit Ebert

Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Luch

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department of Product Safety, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Peiser

matthias.peiser@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department of Product Safety, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH MP. Performed the experiments: MH GE. Analyzed the data: MH MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OM GH MW. Wrote the paper: MP MH AL.