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!

Recently when I was reading about farm animals being fed peanut meal to supplement their daily feed diet, I found this 2020 article from

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Tags: Allergies · Animal feed · Consumer Product Safety · Food Allergies · Peanut Allergy

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 · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Gluten Free · Languages · Modern food · Translations · Travel Safety · Vegetarians

This morning I was reading the news online and an article about kitchen sponges carrying bacteria caught my attention.  Are food allergens in your kitchen sponge?

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Tags: Allergies · Consumer Product Safety · Food Allergies · Kitchen Safety

A great way to understand a new culture is to share in the local cuisine.  But ordering food when you have food allergies or other diet restrictions can be challenging.  Here are some general tips from personal experience and from speaking to other travelers.

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Tags: Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Food Safety · Travel Safety

Traveling over a long period of time? Check out this article from the NY times for things to bring, to do and to remember. 

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Tags: Food & Travel Safety · Medical tourism · Tourism · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · World Cities

Unlike packaged foods, cosmetics typically have no ingredients label making it impossible to know the compounds used in the product.  Best way to avoid this is with a small skin test first.

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Tags: Consumer Product Safety · Cosmetics · Food Allergies

When my daughter was an infant, her pediatrician noticed eczema on her skin and he predicted that she would have asthma at an early age and food allergies starting in childhood.

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Tags: Allergies · Asthma · Food Allergies · Gluten Free

It's been a few months since the last Latex Allergy Awareness Week in the U.S.  This is a particularly difficult medical condition where touching or just breathing the air can cause allergic reactions.

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Tags: Allergists · Consumer Product Safety · Cosmetics · Drug allergies · Food & Travel Safety · Food Allergies · Latex · Medical Conditions · Travel Safety

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: Languages · Study Abroad · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · World Cities

Anyone who has the opportunity to travel to Italy needs to go to Rome and in particular to the Pantheon and Vatican City.  Yes there’s the Colosseum and other fabulous ancient sites and museums to visit but for me these two destinations were unexpectedly off the charts

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Tags: Italy · Tourism · Travel Advice · Travel Destinations · Vacationing · World Cities