If you or your child have a severe food allergy, you know how scary it can be to eat away from home where you have a better chance of knowing if foods are safe. Anaphylaxis is the name of a potentially life-threatening or fatal allergic reaction caused by items including foods, such as nuts, tree nuts and legumes, fish, dairy products, eggs, soy or wheat [1], or products such as latex—a natural rubber that may cause both reaction upon contact or by consuming “cross-reactive” foods such as bananas, avocados or kiwis (to name a few).

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