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Swati Shah learned about FARE’s Food Allergy Heroes Walk this year and immediately jumped at the chance to get involved and make a difference for the food allergy community by joining the Northern Virginia Food Allergy Heroes Walk committee.

About two dozen advocates from across New York, some of whom have lost a family member to anaphylaxis, convened in Albany to participate in FARE’s Food Allergy Awareness Day on May 16.

A new method for diagnosing peanut allergy was outlined in a letter published last month in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI). This mast cell activation test was compared to other available diagnostic tests on the basis of sensitivity (the rate of true positive tests, in which a disease is successfully identified) and specificity (the rate of true negative tests, in which a disease that isn’t present is successfully ruled out).

Throughout the month of May, thousands of people around the country shined a light on food allergies in various ways – from participating in FARE’s daily Food Allergy Awareness Action Steps, to asking their legislators to issue proclamations declaring May 13-19, 2018 Food Allergy Awareness Week, to leading awareness events in their schools and communities and much more. Here are just a few highlights from this year’s Food Allergy Awareness Week.

Recent college graduate Lily Roth is a vocal food allergy advocate and volunteer for FARE’s Food Allergy Heroes Walk in Pittsburgh. Lily majored in emergency medicine with a minor in chemistry and plans to attend medical school to become a pediatric emergency physician and an EMS physician.

Food Allergy Awareness Week shines a light on the seriousness of food allergies each year in May. By increasing awareness, we can encourage respect, promote safety and improve the quality of life for the 15 million Americans with food allergies, including all those at risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis.

The FARE Patient Registry marks its first-year anniversary today. We’re celebrating this milestone by encouraging food allergy patients (or their legal representatives) to join the registry’s clinical trial.

It seems as if the whole world has heard about the scandal and chaos revolving around the food allergy-related scene in the recent film Peter Rabbit.

FARE’s Hometown Heroes Community Walk for Food Allergy launched last year as a volunteer-driven FARE supported fun and festive event in cities and towns where there is no Food Allergy Heroes Walk.

Food Allergy Awareness Week helps shine a light on food allergy as a serious public health issue that affects 15 million Americans. In 2017, Food Allergy Awareness Week reached millions of people around the United States and beyond through FARE’s Food For Thought videos, social media, building lightings, news stories, and local outreach from volunteers like Lana.