A couple of years ago, there was a pretty high profile case here in BC where a 13 year old girl died at school because of a dairy allergy. She always had to a bring a lunch from home because she was so terribly allergic to dairy, but I guess she was having trouble fitting in because all of her friends bought their lunch at the cafateria, so she begged her mother to let her buy her lunch just once. She was trained since a young child to know what she could and couldn't eat, so they thought she'd be fine.
At the school, she ordered french fries, but what they didn't realize was that the kitchen staff used the same tongs for scooping the fries as they did for putting cheese on them for poutine. That little bit of exposure killed her.
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