Your kids' healthy lunches need not put others at risk

It wasn't that long ago that harried parents would send their kids off to school with lunch boxes filled with a peanut butter and jam sandwich or two, an apple, a juice box and maybe a couple of cookies.

Times have changed. And not always for the better.

While greater awareness of food allergies has cut into the proliferation of peanuts and nut-based products in schools, there are a host of foods that can cause serious — even life-threatening issues for some children.

On Sept. 30, 2003, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa removed 13-year-old Sabrina Shannon from life support. A day earlier she suffered anaphylactic shock after eating french fries in her high school cafeteria.

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