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Old 01-06-2014, 09:25 AM  
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Gluten is pretty low on the totem pole for this. Even people with gluten allergies don't die from them. There are many people in the world who can be killed by a single peanut. That's not a fad or a misdiagnosis... and even trace amounts are enough to cause a reaction. That's why you see food packages stating 'processed in a facility that also processes peanuts." It doesn't matter if peanuts aren't an ingredient, even if it's just residue from the thing they made in the factory yesterday... it's deadly to some people.
i'm aware of the peanut allergy, but to say "many people in the world who can be killed by a single peanut" is quite an exaggeration.

more importantly, nut allergies have been linked to mass psychogenic illness: hysterical reactions grossly out of proportion to the level of danger.

http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pd...s/misc/023.pdf
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