Dear Senator Jim Cooper:
The law that went into effect this year to make manufactures list all known allergen sources in a product has been extremely helpful when shopping at the store. However, if you are away from home and have to eat out it can be extremely difficult. I am proposing that legislation be put into place to make all restaurants have an ingredient statement on every item on their menu for all known allergen sources. Such as the following contains: Milk protein, egg protein, peanut protein, soybean protein, wheat protein, shellfish protein, and corn protein, etc.
Example: Dairy Queen Blizzard- Contains MILK, and trace amounts of PEANUTS.
I have found that most of the world is not allergy friendly. However, with the number of food allergies on the rise, we need to make all of the ingredient information as assessable as possible to the public. Therefore, when you have no choice but to eat out, that you can make an informed decision on what you can and can not eat. I would greatly appreciate it if you will draft this bill to help the people that suffer with anaphylaxis food allergies.
Sincerely,
Laura Duke
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I got a response from Sen. Burchett’s assistant Alice F. Burchett, on 03/02/06.
Senator Burchett has SB761/HB1279 that he introduced last year. As written right now this would require any food service establishment to have a person available to answer consumer inquiries about food ingredients and provide a list of ingredients for each food item served. Right now the bill is in the General Welfare Committee.
Please feel free to check with us if you want any additional information.
Alice F. Bigham
Assistant to Sen. Burchett
