[Savage Beast]

There is no way to be completely sure that food is not contaminated with dangerous allergens--and children must get food from somewhere.

If parents can't trust the labels, what can they trust?

I thought like you do at first, but food allergy is rapidly becoming a serious, epidemic health problem that threatens us all.

Nobody knows the cause of this rapid development.

You will understand the problem when one of your children develops a food allergy--I pray that this never happens, mind you--which is becoming more and more likely.

When that happens, you will understand the importance of nut-free schools.

From the point of view of the school teachers--how would you like to have a suddenly dying child on your hands?

And from your point of view, how would you feel if you accidentally sent nut-contaminated food to school and one of the children died from it?

This is a bigger problem than most people realize.

[kosciusko51]

Of course I would be upset if a child died from exposure to nuts. I think I made that clear in the first post.

My point is that Publix should not be held liable for this unfortunate accident any more than if my child or I accidentally exposed another child with allergies to nuts.