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Article: Nut hysteria downplayed; ALLERGY ALERT; Food for thought
- Article from:
- The Press
- Article date:
- December 13, 2008
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New Zealand allergy specialists are downplaying international
claims of mass hysteria over nut allergies.
Professor Nicolas Christakis, of the Harvard Medical School in
the United States, said measures to control children's exposure to
nuts were spiralling out of control.
In a British Medical Journal article published this week, he
cited examples of 10-year-olds being evacuated from a school bus
because a peanut was rolling around the vehicle's floor, and schools
declaring themselves nut-free by banning peanut butter and other
products containing traces of nuts.
The number of Americans who died from food allergies each year
was lower than deaths from sports injuries or gun accidents, but ...