Analysis Of For Students With Food Allergies, College Campuses Can Be Hazardous

In Katie Camero’s article “For Students with Food Allergies, College Campuses Can Be Hazardous”, the author shares how dangerous and stressful it can be for college students to navigate around food allergies. Colleges say that the health and safety of students is top priority, yet do the bare minimum when it comes to the dining hall. Workers are inadequately trained to understand food allergies. Setting up a dedicated station that is free from common food allergies is good in hindsight, yet often is food that no effort was put into. Students are learning how to be independent for the first time and college campuses not properly labeling and putting out unpalatable allergy-free food is unacceptable behavior. Camero shared how JAMA Network’s data stated that 1 in 10 adults in the United States have food allergies.

Camero interviewed Caroline Moassessi, a mother of two, and shared her thoughts on being a mother with children with food allergies, “It’s like kindergarten all over again. You have to let go and pass the food allergy baton as you hold your breath because you hope they make good decisions.” One of the places that college students are getting the majority of their meals from is the dining hall. Katie Camero wrote, “In one study, students told researchers that they had eaten food that was mislabeled or that they had received the wrong meals in dining rooms.” No parent deserves to get the phone call that their child had an allergic reaction, especially if it was because of mislabeling at the dining hall. Students with food allergies are often cautious and attentive when it comes to what they are eating, yet they can not do much when the food is mislabeled. Leaving a sugar cookie label, but switching the cookies out with a peanut butter cookie is a deathly mistake. Students rely on being given an up-to-date