Thread: This burns my bacon! More nanny state bureaucratic nonesense.

Originally Posted by Crotalus

I decided to find out what the incidence of a dangerous reaction is. Other articles state that 1 in 200 children has the allergy, but this article states that only 4 in 100,000 have a severe reaction. The same incidence as getting struck by lightning.

The figure isn't how many people have a severe allergy, it's the odds of any random person having anaphylaxis from a food allergy in any given year. To extend the lighting analogy, kids with allergies are living on top of antenna towers.