After 11-year-old Landon Wood suffered fatal anaphylaxis from eating a supermarket bakery cookie that wasn’t labeled for tree nuts, his grieving family decided to take legal action.

But the lawsuit is about more than this one tragedy. It highlights gray areas in food allergy labeling legislation – a must-read for food allergy parents. read more

Unless you’ve lobbied for a food allergy law, you may not know Jennifer Jobrack. It’s time to change that, and we celebrate Jennifer today as our latest “Allergy Advocate” honoree. She is FARE’s Senior National Director of Advocacy, hard at work on epinephrine accessibility and other crucial food allergy issues. read more

If there’s a good chance your child may have outgrown a food allergy, the allergist will offer an oral food challenge.

But research shows that many families avoid the test, which involves consuming small amounts of a suspect food while under close medical supervision.  

Allergist Dr. Scott Sicherer investigates the top 5 reasons why, and what parents will want to know. read more

It was excruciating to watch her young son suffer with red, inflamed and relentlessly itchy skin.

So Jennifer Roberge began a tireless search for the answer to her son’s eczema and found her calling in the process. She shares her story.
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