Have you considered a topical op-ed submission to immunology journals? Whatsoever shall be opined could be couched within the relevant, recent process with the FDA. Consumer protection and food science trade journals would be a great placement as well, it's both much easier for one to refer to academic pubs and harder for opposition to dismiss an academic pub even if it's a little sneaky to get it in as an op-ed.
I'm not sure that I'm following you NR ... what would be the benefit of submissions to those journals?
Who would we be trying to inform/influence? I wouldn't feel comfy submitting something to an immun journal ... if I tried such a thing, one of these
would not be enough to bring to dd's next allergy appt ... overstepping way too much, I think. Most of the allergists on twitter have been very quiet about the whole thing even though I'm 99% sure that most know about the petition ... not sure why that is ... maybe many are involved with the orgs that aren't on board? So much of the FA community politics are a mystery to me. Industry politics & FDA politics, I feel that I somewhat understand.
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Now ... one weakness so far has been reaching the sesame-allergic folks who are not active with FA social media. A lot of them are probably on FARE's email list, which of course, is no good to us. How do we reach them through other means? Shows like GMA, popular mags, etc.? Any ideas? Also, Homa & CSPI are doing a lot of effort to help the FA community ... maybe CSPI could set up a sesame fund so people could help them out with donations?
Anyway, I'm glad that CSPI has a lot of experience with FDA petitions. I figure, at this point, I'll only be active with this if they request some kind of help/action.