I understand the need for caution when it comes to food allergies. My son, Connor, is allergic to dairy, peanuts, and eggs. We scour the labels of everything that comes into our home, carry an EpiPen and Benadryl wherever we go, and have driven hapless waiters to insanity with our questions.
But please, somebody tell me why, oh why, when a person purchases a bag of Peanuts at a baseball game and flips it over to read the nutritional label, why is there a sentence that reads: This product may contain peanuts.
Really, America? We need a warning on our peanuts that there may be peanuts in our peanuts?
Good Lord Almighty.
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Ha! I used to wonder the same thing. My son is also allergic to peanuts and I've done a ton of reading as a result. There was a law passed in 2006 and companies have to put it on the label if one of the8 major allergens is in their products.
It's silly but they're just following the law. It always makes for a great laugh, though!!
-Robyn
www.peanutallergykid.com
Ooooh girl, we could talk. I got one of those Dairy allergy kiddos too.
Yea, that is pretty nuts. (look, I made a funny).
Wonder if Ice Cream has the same warning label.
Hey Robyn...what's up with companies that DON'T follow that law?
That's apparently what we've come to in this country, bless their little litigious hearts.
I am sure there is some knucklehead out there that tried to sue the peanut company that didn't put that disclosure on their bag of peanuts and then got severly sick.
Either they were just money hungry son of a guns or just plain stupid.
Unfortunatly this world is full of them. In fact, I think most of them live here in AZ. I wonder if the heat has fried most everyone's brain out here...
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