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Wednesday March 29 | 2023
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Family of Crowborough boy gets allergen petition all the way to debate in Parliament by Victoria Roberts & Sharon Bruce A PETITION for clearer labelling of allergens on restaurant menus is to be debated in Parliament, thanks to the efforts of the family of Owen Carey, of Crowborough, who died from an allergic reaction. Owen Carey, 18, experienced anaphylaxis (anaphylactic shock) after eating a grilled chicken breast at Byron Burger at the O2 Arena in London on April 22, 2017. Owen had made staff aware of his allergies but was not told that the chicken had been marinated in buttermilk, an inquest into his death heard. Owen had been celebrating his 18th birthday at the time of his death. Now, following a petition by the Carey
family, ‘Owen’s Law’, a campaign to legally require restaurants to include information about the top 14 allergens on the face of their menus, will be debated in Parliament on May 15. Currently, restaurants are permitted to provide this information in any format they choose, including verbally only.
Requirement Owen’s Law would make the listing of allergens on menus a legal requirement and require serving staff to initiate conversations about allergies with all customers. It would also create a national register of anaphylaxis deaths. Owen’s father Paul said: “At the moment, restaurant owners are obliged to provide information about allergens,
but the law allows them to do it ‘by any means’. “We want that to be changed to ‘in writing’.” Owen’s Law would ‘piggyback’ on to Natasha’s Law, which came into force in 2021, requiring foods prepackaged on site, such as sandwiches, to carry a full list of ingredients. That law followed the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who had not been made aware of sesame seeds baked into the bread of a sandwich she had eaten. It is policy for only those petitions with 100,000 or more signatures to be ‘considered’ for a Parliamentary debate, whereas the ‘Owen’s Law’ petition had 12,889. However, the parliamentary petition map shows support for the petition across the entire country.
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