Epiova · For families and allergy clinics and schools
Your allergies, your card, your labels in one place.
A personal allergy companion for the UK: keep allergy details and plans together, read ingredient labels, and share an allergy card with the people who need it.
Built by QuoVira Health, the team behind Striova, in the UK.
- For
- Families, Allergy clinics, Schools
- Intended use
- For people in the UK who live with allergies, and those who care for them, to organise the allergy information they or their clinician provide, read product labels, and share that information with people they choose.
- Made by
- QuoVira Health Ltd, UK
§1The problem
Allergy information is scattered
The allergy is in the GP record, the plan is a printout, pen expiry dates are on the box and pollen is in another app. Carers, grandparents and schools often work from memory.
Labels change, “may contain” wording is easy to miss, and explaining an allergy in a restaurant or abroad is hard.
| Task | Today | With Epiova |
|---|---|---|
| Allergy details | Allergy detailsIn letters, notes and memory | One profile you and your family keep up to date |
| Ingredient labels | Ingredient labelsRead in small print in the shop | Scan a barcode or photograph a label and see which of your listed allergens the words mention, with the words shown |
| Telling others | Telling othersExplained again each time | An allergy card you share by link, in English or another language |
§2What it does
What Epiova does
| 2.1Allergy profile and plan | Record the allergies and plan your clinician gave you, for yourself or someone you care for, and keep them up to date. |
|---|---|
| 2.2Label reader | Scan a barcode or photograph a label. Epiova shows the ingredient words that mention allergens on your list, and the “may contain” wording separately, so you can read them yourself. |
| 2.3Allergy card | A clear card with your allergies and emergency contacts that you can share by link with a school, a childminder or a restaurant. |
| 2.4Reminders and pollen | Reminders for pen expiry dates and appointments you set, and public pollen forecasts with alerts at levels you choose. |
§3Intended purpose
What it is for, and what it is not
For people in the UK who live with allergies, and those who care for them, to organise the allergy information they or their clinician provide, read product labels, and share that information with people they choose.
It is
- A place to keep allergy details and a clinician’s plan
- A label reader that shows which ingredient words mention the allergens you list
- A way to share an allergy card and set reminders
It is not
- A diagnosis, or advice about symptoms, reactions or treatment
- A judgement about whether a food is suitable for anyone
- A replacement for reading the label, asking staff, or your allergy team’s advice
Medical device regulation. Designed to sit outside the UK Medical Devices Regulations: it stores and displays information people provide, shows label text, and makes no clinical decision about anyone. We will confirm this with the MHRA before release.
§4Evidence
Assurance, as it stands today
What a DPO, IT security team or commissioner will ask for, and where each item is. We only mark something in place when we could send it to you today.
| Item | State | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber Essentials | In place | Held by QuoVira Health Ltd |
| ICO registration | In place | ZC190656 |
| UK hosting and data residency | In place | DigitalOcean, London |
| Data protection impact assessment | Planned | — |
| Medical device qualification query to the MHRA | Planned | — |
| Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA | Planned | Audited before release |
§5Enquire
Register your interest
Whether you live with an allergy, care for someone who does, or work in an allergy clinic or school, tell us and we will let you know when Epiova is ready to try.
- An email when Epiova is ready to try
- Early access for allergy clinics, schools and charities
- Does Epiova tell me whether a food is safe to eat?
- No. It shows you the ingredient words that mention the allergens you list, with the exact wording from the label. You, or the person caring for you, make the decision, using your allergy team’s advice.
- Where is my data kept?
- In the UK. QuoVira Health Ltd is the data controller and is registered with the ICO (ZC190656).