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Article: Back to School With Food Allergies Means Depending on Your PALs
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Jennifer Love, Marketing and Media Communications
Manager of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, +1-703-563-3061,
+1-301-639-4811 (cell), jlove@foodallergy.org
FAIRFAX, Va., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the 2.2
million school-age children who have food allergies and their
parents, back to school means educating classmates and parents
before the school year even begins.
In the school setting, avoiding food allergens can be difficult
because they're everywhere -- in the cafeteria, on the playground,
in the classroom. Food is used in class celebrations, for art
projects, as a reward for good behavior, and in math and science
lessons. But if everyone ...