Article summary
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has called for stronger allergen rules to provide for a more robust system to record incidences of anaphylaxis and prevent the mislabelling of food containing allergens following the death of Celia Marsh. Marsh died in 2017 after eating a supposedly vegan Pret-a-Manger sandwich, which actually contained milk protein. The Coroner's report into Marsh's death recommended that a system was created to record cases of anaphylaxis presenting in hospitals to provide an early warning of the risk posed to allergic individual by products with undeclared allergen content.
To continue reading this news article, as well as thousands of others like it, sign in with LexisNexis or register for a free trial