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Woman with severe allergy ‘left with no choice’ but to buy every packet of peanuts on flight
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Why do they sell potentially allergic products onboard?
Lots of people are "potentially" allergic to all kinds of benign seeming stuff. It would be nigh on impossible to create a menu that no one should be allergic too.
Basically yes, but tree nuts and peanuts are on the list of the most common allergens and are ones of the deadliest. Tree nut allergies are responsible for around 50% of anaphylaxis-related deaths, I think it's a high number. Allergic reaction to both of them can start after inhaling small particles (that's why the woman was afraid of somebody opening the package with peanuts). Considering these arguments, it's better to not sell nuts and peanuts onboard.
A quick internet search shows but alergys effect 1 in 200 UK adults, and that most get mild discomfort rather than life threatening reactions. I don't think it's reasonable to take them off the menu entirely for that level of risk. I think that if someone makes the airline aware ahead of a flight and presents medical proof of how risky they are then perhaps they shouldn't stock them on that flight, but this women waited until she boarded and then expected the flight crew to make the decision.
Honestly haven't been served any kind of nuts on a plane in decades, it's usually pretzels.
Why can't people with peanut allergies just die? We're interfering with evolution. See, I said something dumb too. People are allergic to just about every food item you can think of, so just no food allowed in plains right?