AllergyKids - What You Can Do!

Food Politics Blog

Defining Food Allergies

Our Research

Resources

Foundation

In the News

About Us

Alert: New Proteins & Allergens in Foods Pose a Hazard to Our Health

AllergyKids has learned that the American children are now consuming new, unlabeled allergens that are banned from children's foods in other developed countries given the health risks that they may present.

In the last 15 years, new proteins have been introduced into the food supply that have not yet been proven safe. As a result, governments around the world refused to allow these novel proteins into their food supplies while children here in the US consume them.

We encourage you to use the following letter to contact your government representative and highlight how the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act has a loophole that fails to address these new allergens that are now found in approximately 70 percent of processed foods in the form of synthetically derived proteins (these hidden allergens are found in soy, dairy, corn, vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup, soy lecithin, soy lectin, soybean oil, corn starch and other soy and corn derivatives used by the United States food industry).

Learn More

In order for this message to be successfully delivered to the appropriate contact(s), all fields are required.

Subject:

Message

I am deeply concerned over a loophole in the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act that fails to highlight and label the recent introduction of toxic proteins and allergens in soy, corn, canola and other food products. According to Daniel Sheehan, PhD and director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) National Center for Toxicological Research, the American children “are taking part in “a large, uncontrolled and basically unmonitored human infant experiment.” With the recent introduction of these toxins, proteins and allergens in our food, we have seen epidemic increases in the number of children with allergies, autism, ADHD and asthma in the last ten years. Because no human trials were ever conducted to assess their safety, government agencies in 60 developed countries around the world have either banned or labeled them in children’s foods. The failure to label these toxins, allergens and proteins in the US has led other developed countries to refer to these childhood conditions as “American epidemics” since their introduction in 1996. We encourage you to learn more at www.allergykids.com about the health implications of these hidden toxins and allergens and the burden that it will present to the health care system if it is not addressed and urge you to require that the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act include genetically engineered ingredients on labels as food allergens, given the novel proteins, toxins and allergens that they contain and the health implications that they are having on the American children. In 1946, Harry Truman said, “A nation is only as healthy as its children.” I am extremely grateful to you for acting on behalf of ours.

Sincerely,

Title

First Name		*
Last Name		*
Email		*
Street		*
Street 2
City		*
State/Region		*
Zip/Postal Code		*

Keep me informed on this and other campaigns

Word Verification:
Enter the word as it is shown in the box below
	This step is required to prevent abuse of our services.

Our Intimate Relationship with the Toxins in Our Food

FREE Insight!

Sign up for our FREE email newsletter so that you can receive the most current global research on how to protect the health and well-being of your child with food allergies.

Email:

Hear Our Mission on CNN

What You Can Do!

To help identify and protect the 10 million American children with food allergies, please download any or all of the following forms to help create awareness of food allergies in your AllergyKids’ school.

In the Grocery Store
In the School
Download AllergyKids Safe@School Teacher Training Guidelines
Download AllergyKids Safe@School Program
Download a free Food Allergy Alert
Download a free Letter to Your Child's Principal
Download a free Letter to Your Child's Teacher
Download a free Letter to the Classroom Parents
In Washington, DC!

Food Politics: AllergyKids Blog

AllergyKids Research

AllergyKids Free Food Allergy Alert

We have designed the AllergyKids Food Allergy Alert Page to help protect the 10 million American children with food allergies.

Download a free Food Allergy Alert

Emily's Story

Emily Vonder Meulen died on April 13, 2006 from anaphylactic shock. She was 13 years old.
Read Emily's Story

Rescue Roman

Four months after being diagnosed with food allergies, an auto-immune disorder, Roman was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that affects young children and usually starts in the abdomen.
Join AllergyKids in our efforts to Rescue Roman

Tell a Friend!

Let a friend know about AllergyKids today!

Tell a Teacher!

Let Your child's teacher know about AllergyKids.Fill out our simple form today!