Our staff enjoys staying in touch with our customers and the information that they might find interesting related to food, drug and health emergency situations that can occur at home or when travelling. Check back regularly for interesting tidbits and let us know what you like!

On a recent trip to Mexico City, I became aware that second to food allergies is the fact that drinking water can be as dangerous.

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Tags: Diabetes · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Food Labeling · Food Safety · Mexican Food · Mexico · Mexico City · Nuts and Peanuts Allergy · Peanut Allergy · Water

A customer traveled to Asia and had some interesting feedback on wheat being confused as rice.

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Tags: Allergies · China travel · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Food Labeling · Food Safety · Gluten Free · Southeast Asia · traveling to China

The answer to this is ......BOTH are right.   Here is a letter we received from a customer:

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I read and saved articles in the Washington Post and The New York Times about the SelectWisely food allergy cards. The next time I travelled...

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Tags: Food Allergies · Travel Advice · Travel Tips · Traveling Egypt · Traveling Peru · Traveling to Japan · World Cities

Continuing with our customer travel postings, here is a one from a customer in Pennsylvania sharing her food allergy story in Paris.

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Tags: Allergies · Food Allergies · Nuts and Peanuts Allergy · Peanut Allergy · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · Travel Tips · Traveling · Traveling to France · World Cities

Comments on our Language Translations, our 'Keep It Simple' approach to our Translation Cards, the Chinese language writing styles that we use for our cards and our list of Food Translations.

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Tags: Allergies · China travel · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Food Labeling · Food Safety · Gluten Free · Languages · Modern food · Tourism · Translations · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · Travel Safety · Travel Tips · Traveling Egypt · Traveling Peru · Traveling Thailand · Traveling to Italy · Traveling to Japan · Vacationing · Vegetarians

A customer travels to Morocco and offers feedback on nuts allergies

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Tags: Allergies · Food Allergies · Morocco · Nuts and Peanuts Allergy · Peanut Allergy · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · Travel Safety · Travel Tips · Traveling Egypt · Vacationing

It is fairly common for capsule or tablet medications to contain lactose.  If you are lactose intolerant (or milk allergic), please keep this in mind.

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Tags: Consumer Product Safety · Cosmetics · Drug allergies · Food & Travel Safety · Lactose · Medical Conditions

Study abroad programs are a great way to see the world for college students.  Inspite of all the scary stuff in the world today, kids need to get out on their own, to discover the world, to be inconvenienced, to wonder, to learn to take a calculated risk, to say hello in a foreign language.

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Tags: Allergies · Allergists · Diabetes · Drug allergies · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Food Labeling · Food Safety · Gluten Free · Languages · Modern food · Nuts and Peanuts Allergy · Peanut Allergy · Study Abroad · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · Travel Safety · Travel Tips · Vacationing · World Cities

A customer shares her food allergy travel story and lessons learned traveling to Thailand two months ago. 

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Tags: Allergies · Food Allergies · Nuts and Peanuts Allergy · Peanut Allergy · Thailand · Travel Advice · Traveling Thailand · World Cities