Posted on 04/24/2021 5:40:25 AM PDT by mylife
President Biden on Friday signed into law a new measure that designates sesame as the ninth major food allergy and ramps up allergy research, enacting a bipartisan attempt to address marked growth in certain deadly allergies.
The Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research (Faster) Act passed the Senate in March and the House of Representatives this month. It received bipartisan support.
In the past two decades, life-threatening childhood food allergies have risen steadily, growing by about 4 percent per year to afflict 32 million Americans, according to research by Northwestern University, McKinsey & Company, and Food Allergy Research and Education, a nonprofit. Studies estimate that the costs borne by American families — for medical bills, buying special foods or forgoing full-time employment to care for a child with a food allergy — total $24.8 billion annually.
There are several strong theories to explain the uptick, says Jonathan Spergel, chief of the allergies department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, but one stands out: In 2000, a small study suggested that if parents delayed the introduction of potentially allergenic foods, kids were less likely to develop those allergies.
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big macs banned!!
(sniffle)......Biden is s-o-o-o-o-o good.....if only we deplorables could be as “good as the Government..” (sob).
I'm begging you Lord, I'm begging you, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP Lord, MAKE IT STOP.
Gonna go hoard some black and regular sesame now.
toasted sesame oil is sooo good.
Who still has trust in our rubberstamp Senate and its GOP legion of stalwart heroes?
Priorities!...../sarc
Low burn temps. You've got to stick to low heat I've found.
Do I have to eat falafel without tahini sauce?
My son has Crohns Disease and can’t process seeds like sesame.
I want McDonald’s to immediately discontinue the sesame seed bun for my son.
Actually, when he orders a Big Mac, he asks for a seedless bun. Problem solved.
Oh that’s just dandy! My favorite bagel will soon be called the Einstein’s” Almost Everything” bagel.
Republicant’s
Joe has been watching too much Sesame Street in the White House.
When I was a kid in the 40s and 50s, nobody had a peanut allergy. About once every ten days the lunch room lady made the very best peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches for everyone.
what? never mind- if he’s busy with this kind of nonsense it gives him less time to eff other stuff up.
and our cooks made gigantic peanut butter cookies! Still warm in a wax baggie.
and I only knew 6 kids in my entire K-12 school years who had any kind of (serious) illness or allergy.
Now you can’t throw a rock without hitting somebody that has something that requires special handling.
When the constitutional republic is reestablished the polluted wastedump on the Potomac should be abandoned to remind people of the destructive nature of government gone law-happy.
Marquez had the right idea - One Hundred Years of Solitude, when DC is a free-fire zone.
(free-fire zone - an area where any human activity is fired on)
Says who?
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