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FAAN Unveils Five Steps Forward For Food Allergy
In honor of the 11th
annual Food Allergy Awareness Week, May 11-17, The Food Allergy &
Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) unveiled its new advocacy initiative "Five Steps
Forward for Food Allergy" at an educational briefing on Capitol Hill.
This initiative addresses the challenges of food allergy and is aimed
at improving the lives of the more than 12 million Americans who suffer
from food allergies. "These five steps will be a great leap forward for the
millions of American children and adults who live each day wondering if
they are going to have an allergic reaction to a food. With the help of
Congress, the NIH, the CDC, and the FDA we will make America a much safer
place for those with food allergies," said FAAN CEO and Founder Anne
Munoz-Furlong.
The "Five Steps Forward for Food Allergy" initiative calls for:
1. School Guidelines: The development of guidelines for assuring the
safety of food-allergic children in school is necessary to keep the
2.2-million school-age children with food allergies safe. The Food Allergy
and Anaphylaxis Management Act (S. 1232/H.R. 2063) calls for these
guidelines to be developed, and the House of Representatives has already
passed this legislation. Therefore, the Senate should move swiftly to pass
the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act.
2. Food Allergy Information: There is a critical need for enhanced
public information on food allergy, such as an information clearinghouse to
provide guidance to the public and health care professionals. The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention should create a National Information
Center on Food Allergies.
3. Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergies:
Currently, there is no consistent agreement on how to identify and treat
food allergy reactions. Too often, patients go from physician to physician
seeking a diagnosis and receive incomplete information and guidance on
allergen avoidance, the severity of the disease, and the need to carry
epinephrine at all times. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases should move forward with the development of food allergy diagnosis
and management guidelines and work with private-sector organizations to
assure broad distribution to health care professionals.
4. Research: Expanded research on food allergy and anaphylaxis is
necessary to understand why the prevalence of food allergy is increasing,
as well as how to prevent and treat food allergies. Congress should
increase funding for food allergy research by $50 million over the next
five years. Annual increases of $10 million each year for five years should
be invested in basic and clinical research on food allergy and anaphylaxis,
as recommended by the NIH Expert Panel on Food Allergy Research.
5. Improved Allergen Labeling: Since strict avoidance of food allergens
is the only way to prevent a reaction, food-allergic consumers are heavily
reliant on the information presented to them on food labels. The Food
Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 improved some facets
of allergen labeling, but the new law did not regulate the use of
precautionary allergen statements, ranging from "May Contain" to "Processed
in a Facility" to "Made on Shared Equipment." The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration should move to regulate the wording, use, and definition of
precautionary allergen statements to further improve allergen labeling.
To read the complete "Five Steps Forward for Food Allergy" and see a
list of supporters, visit FAAN's website, http://www.foodallergy.org. The website
also has information on Food Allergy Awareness Week, food allergy
legislation, and food allergy in general.
ABOUT FAAN
Founded in 1991, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is the
world leader in information about food allergy, a potentially fatal
condition that afflicts approximately 12 million Americans, or one out of
every 25. A nonprofit organization based in Fairfax, Va., FAAN has 30,000
members in the U.S., Canada, and 62 other countries. It is dedicated to
increasing public awareness of food allergy and its consequences, to
educating people about the condition, and to advancing research on behalf
of all those affected by it. FAAN provides information and educational
resources about food allergy to patients, their families, schools, health
professionals, pharmaceutical companies, the food industry, and government
officials. For more information, please visit FAAN at http://www.foodallergy.org,
http://www.faankids.org, and http://www.foodallergy.org.
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
http://www.foodallergy.org
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