But do you consider made in a facility notes to be the same as shared lines?
Like I said, we probably purchase several products that are made in the facility but fail to note it on their products. I rarely call anymore but I also pass on products that are too good to be true (ie store brand candies when I have seen numerous warnings on other name brand candies).
Many people think that 'shared facility' is safer than 'shared lines' but this isn't necessarily the case. The FDA study on xcontam found more xcontam in shared facility products. There is no standardization on what these terms mean. For one company 'shared facility' would be listed as 'shared lines' in another. Without calling companies we don't know what any warnings means. I would not ignore any warning at all.
Also, shared facility but not shared lines could be something much more likely to xcontam than shared lines such as *powdered forms* of allergens. If powdered eggs, say, were used in the facility, then the egg powder could easily xcontam everything, even other lines, because it can get airborne.
Excellent points, lakeswimr!
There is true misunderstanding as to what the labeling means -- or really does NOT mean -- and not just in the newbie LTFA families . . . it's everywhere, so far as my experiences.
In our home, once upon a time, I had a large binder I kept up-to-date with product info. I couldn't keep up with it through all the moves and chaos of our military and family life . . .
Most of the info is just in my head now. (Need to off load that, TYVM!)
Time to start over with that and have my kids involved in all ways.
Need to have our personal lists at fingertips in a digital form.
To the point of the question as to when our kids were old enough to make decisions -- I would say son was old enough to make sound decisions (based on the info I'd taught him out of my brain and what the label caveats do NOT mean) -- about age 13. DD is just now 13 and while she's old enough to understand and discern, she's not got the best impulse control.
Also, for our 2 kids, it is DS with the life-long history of ana reax (including to contact and from SPTs in office) . . . and it is DD who is likely going to be the one who challenges out of her LTFA diagnosis.