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Food Labels to List Ingredients Linked to Allergy Attacks

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 09:00 CST

By The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio

Jan. 3--Beginning this year, the Food and Drug Administration is requiring that food labels clearly state if products contain the eight major allergenic foods -- milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat or soybeans -- or proteins that come from them.

For example, if a product contains casein, a milk-derived protein, the label will have to use the term "milk" in addition to the term "casein."

Approximately 30,000 Americans require emergency room treatment and 150 die each year because of allergic reactions to food.

The FDA also recently began allowing whole grain barley and barley-containing products to claim they reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the cause of almost 500,000 deaths in the United States each year.

Top 10 resolutions

Had any luck with those New Year's resolutions yet? Get a look at the top 10 resolutions people made this year, according to a poll by the AARP. Respondents were asked the open-ended question: "What is your New Year's resolution?"

People over 50

1. Lose weight.

2. Devote more time to religious work and study.

3. (Tied) Be a nicer person.

Eat healthful foods.

Enjoy life more.

6. (Tied) Save more money.

Quit a bad habit, like smoking.

Exercise.

Spend more time with friends.

10. Get a new job.

People under 50

1. Quit a bad habit, like smoking.

2. Lose weight.

3. Save more money.

4. (Tied) Devote more time to religious work and study.

Get a new job.

Exercise.

7. (Tied) Be a nicer person.

Eat healthful foods.

Enjoy life more.

Go back to school.

The telephone survey of 1,050 adults was conducted by ICR, an independent research company. This was a randomly selected, nationally representative sample interviewed between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. The margin of error is +/- 3.02 percent.

Elizabeth Suh can be reached at 330-996-3748 or esuh@thebeaconjournal.com.

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Source: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)

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