A Lawyer's Perspective on Food Allergies

Filed in archive Allergy Blogs , Food Allergies , Living with Allergies by ruth on March 26, 2007

When a product label reads "May Contain Nuts", doesn't it frustrate you? I am sure those of you with nut allergies or are parents of children with nut allergies can relate. Why can't the manufacturers just make it certain. Does it or doesn't it contain nuts?!?

Here's another nut allergic ranting about it. Like Legal Eagle, my son generally does not show an allergic reaction when eating products that have "may contain nuts" on the label. My theory is either the level of contamination is too low to register in my son's immune system, or as she put:

the label is just a lawyer's trick to cover companies on the 0.01% off chance that a hazelnut fragment falls into the vanilla ice cream mix.

Go ahead and jump to Legal Eagle's blog entry and get a lawyer's perspective on labeling, food allergy guidelines in schools, and crops that are genetically modified to be less allergenic.

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Can Food Allergies Among Children Be Prevented? - 07 March 2007
Food Allergies during Food Allergy Week, May 13-19 - 10 May 2007
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Response from: Ria (03/27/07 4:32pm)

I went to a presentation recently by a food scientist and a nutritionist who addressed food labeling and the manufacturing process. They mentioned that "May contain..." has resulted in a drop in sales for those products because people/parents (of course), will err on the side of caution and not buy it. So generally, big food manufacturers seriously weigh the risks before they include that advisory language, rather than using the "cover your a..." strategy. Our latest bulletin has more on "Making Sense of Food Labels." (www.checkmytag.com/downloads.html)