Food Allergy Awareness Week 2014

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sesame seeds labeling: US specific (laws, loopholes)

Food Allergy Awareness Week

http://www.foodallergy.org/food-allergy-awareness-week#.U0CIZn-9KSM

May 11 - May 17

My wish for this week is that one of the major allergy organizations makes a commitment to try and get sesame added to the USA list of "major food allergens".

What's your wish?


Do you have any plans to raise awareness?

[spacecanada]

I heard the world-wide focus for 2014 was to make sure more people have allergy emergency action plans in place.  That would be really, REALLY nice!  I have never had a kid with allergies hand one to me, ever, and after I ask for one I get a deer-in-the-headlights look from their parent, then they give me just one EpiPen and half the time it's expired (and I have to request a new one).  Sigh. 

Every little bit of educating we can do can make a difference, if only in a handful of individuals. 

Adding sesame to the US priority allergen list would be incredible too!

[hk]

sesame seeds labeling: US specific (laws, loopholes)

Food Allergy Awareness Week

http://www.foodallergy.org/food-allergy-awareness-week#.U0CIZn-9KSM

May 11 - May 17

My wish for this week is that one of the major allergy organizations makes a commitment to try and get sesame added to the USA list of "major food allergens".[/


What's your wish?


Do you have any plans to raise awareness?

[CMdeux]

Hmmm...

my wish... my wish...


well, my wish is for truly low-profile and rugged epinephrine-- and something that can manage wider temperature excursions and has a 3-5y shelf-life, and which has repeating doses (maybe 3 doses per device, but still in a single-use device, if that makes sense).  I keep thinking about it.



More realistically, anaphylaxis AWARENESS in the general public-- what I wish that most people understood:

1.  Knowing what we can eat is only the first STEP in being 'safe' because what YOU eat, where you eat, and what you do with yourself and your detritus after--  is a risk to some people with food allergies.

[twinturbo]

Basic goal? Food out of the curriculum. Full stop.

Reach goal? Replace energy, money and time spent on food in curriculum and birthday celebrations during class time with more science and art materials.