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Article: Gurnee boy goes to Washington to talk about food-allergy laws.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- May 10, 2007
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Byline: Bob Susnjara Daily Herald Staff Writer
Not many 7-year-old boys have an interest in U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, let alone visit Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to support food-allergy legislation for the nation's schools.
But Gurnee's Benjamin Block-Glickman is that boy, and he joined 97 other children last week to press the case to more than 30 lawmakers and their staffs. He was part of an effort organized by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network.
What Benjamin and the other children want from Congress is a law that would help them at school.
Proposed is the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act. In part, it would have ...