May Contain Nuts

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Following the recent high-profile cases involving food allergy deaths, Bee Wilson investigates whether labelling needs to go further to protect allergy sufferers. Bee asks if the growing number of people suffering from food allergies could be due to our diet and finds out how food production and labelling might change following the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse who had a severe allergic reaction to Sesame after eating a baguette from Pret a Manger.

Bee speaks to Michelle Berriedale-Johnson and Professor Chris Elliott about the state of current food regulations and the frustrations of the 'May Contain...' label. Dr Adam Fox and dietitian Lucy Upton talk through the probable causes of food allergies and why they're increasingly prevalent in young people. Bee visits Vita Mojo whose use of digital menus offers their customers pinpoint accurate information about which potential allergens are in which dish. Kerrie Foy describes the shock of discovering that her daughter Bluebell may have a peanut allergy and describes how it's turned their lives upside down.

Producer: Toby Field

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0:45.0	So we was at football training with my middle son.
0:49.0	I was eating a cereal bar that did contain peanuts. Blue Bell wanted to try some. I gave her a really, really tiny
0:57.3	amount of the bar because I was actually enjoying it myself, being a bit stingy. And about minutes later she came back to me and said
1:05.4	mommy my lips got bigger.
1:20.0	And as I was looking at her, her cheeks had gone a bit red and she said, oh,
1:27.0	mommy, it's been like that since I get that a thing.
1:30.0	And then I suddenly thought, oh, panic a little bit, got a home, gave us some pyriton straight away,
1:35.6	phoned 111.
1:37.8	Kerry Foy is a mum of three.
1:39.7	She lives in a quiet close in Kingswood, South Kostershire. Earlier this month her six-year-old daughter Blue
1:45.1	Bell suffered a reaction. As this hadn't happened before, Kerry didn't immediately make
1:50.5	the connection between Blue Bell's symptoms and what she'd eaten, and her daughter carried on playing.
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