Abstract
There have been several reports in recent years on the treatment and management of allergy issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine with the British Society for Nutritional Medicine (BSAEM/BSNM). The nature and aims of the latest reports, the RCP's Good Allergy Practice and the BSAEM/BSNM's Effective Allergy Practice, are compared and contrasted. It is concluded that in denying that controversy exists in the field, the RCP's most recent report reveals itself as partisan and thus fails to meet the basic standards of a scientific document.