Campaigners who also lost daughter call for direct meeting with health secretary to lay out proposed changesFood allergy campaigners have requested an urgent meeting with the health secretary after a teenager with a severe dairy allergy died following an anaphylactic reaction to drinking a Costa Coffee hot chocolate.The inquest into the death of Hannah Jacobs, 13, who had been severely allergic to dairy products, fish and eggs since she was a toddler, found there had been “a failure to follow the processes” at Costa Coffee, which led to her drink being prepared with cow’s milk instead of soya milk. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/17/food-firms-must-up-the-ante-on-allergy-knowledge-after-teenagers-death
Author : Vivian Ho
Publish date : 2024-08-17 12:39:48
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