Lisa F.

I urge you to ban airlines from serving peanuts on flights. Currently there are millions of Americans with peanut allergies. Peanuts on airplanes have been proven to be a risk of causing anaphylaxis in peanut-allergic individuals. This limits where peanut-allergic people can go and what we can do. My son has multiple food allergies including peanuts and I can't tell you the fear we have when we fly. We avoid planes but sometimes there is no other option. If it were only affecting a small % of the population that would be one thing but peanut allergy affects millions of people and is growing with the number of those affected increasing at a very rapid rate. Right now according to research 1 in 17 children have a food allergy and half of those have peanut allergies. When large numbers of people open peanut packages on airplanes at the same time it can release enough peanut protein to get into planes air filtration systems and cause anaphylaxis in those allergic to it. Many airlines not only regularly serve packaged p peanuts but also refuse to accommodate those with peanut allergy. They refuse to not serve peanuts on each and every flight. At the very least I would like to see airlines required to refrain from serving packages of peanuts if there is a peanut-allergic individual on board. What is more important--a person's life or little bags of peanuts? Thank you for your consideration.