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Title: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: eragon on April 21, 2016, 09:09:18 AM
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14440533.India_restaurant_fined___5k_after_peanut_allergy_sufferer_had_severe_reaction/?ref=twtrec (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14440533.India_restaurant_fined___5k_after_peanut_allergy_sufferer_had_severe_reaction/?ref=twtrec)
Title: Re: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: eragon on April 21, 2016, 09:11:15 AM
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377665 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25377665) 

I found this interesting.
Title: Re: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: lakeswimr on April 21, 2016, 05:47:38 PM
Is there awareness in the UK that Indian food is high risk?  It seems there have been a number of fatalities of food allergic people eating at Indian restaurants in the UK.  Does that spread awareness about the high risk nature of that food? 
Title: Re: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: GoingNuts on April 21, 2016, 06:20:44 PM
I was wondering the same.  It seems like so many of the reactions we read about in the UK involve curries. 
Title: Re: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: spacecanada on April 21, 2016, 07:36:03 PM
Curries are also a more popular meal in the UK than in North America, which could be adding to that statistic.  Perhaps allergist's aren't telling their patients that ethnic foods are high risk?
Title: Re: restaurant fined after peanut allergy reaction.
Post by: eragon on April 22, 2016, 07:37:46 AM
 a mixture of all these comments.

people are not aware of the risk, not always told by medical people to avoid these restaurants and of course curry is VERY popular in UK.