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Article: Mom seeks ban on peanut butter in schools
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- March 17, 2007
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Whether the schools will stop serving peanut butter sandwiches is
in the hands of the Board of Education.
Lisa Searles, whose 6-year-old son suffers from a life-
threatening peanut allergy, pleaded her case before the school
board's policy committee this week, urging that prepackaged peanut
butter sandwiches be banned. Searles would also like to see an all-
out ban on peanut butter in the schools, for safety's sake.
The committee took no action on the requests, and instead
referred them to the full school board for a decision. The board
meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Seymour Middle School.
Searles' son was diagnosed with the allergy at age 2 and even the
slightest exposure to peanut butter, ...