2025 Wins: Empowering Households to Thrive with Meals Allergic reactions

The Youngsters with Meals Allergic reactions (KFA) group confirmed up this yr in an enormous approach. Due to your motion and assist, households managing meals allergy symptoms gained clearer restaurant allergen labels in California, elevated entry to extra epinephrine choices, and carried out research-backed steerage for extreme allergic reactions.

Right here’s extra data on what we completed collectively:

Successful Restaurant Labeling in California

KFA’s father or mother group, the Bronchial asthma and Allergy Basis of America (AAFA), co-sponsored the ADDE Act (SB 68) with Robyn and Addie Lao. With advocates throughout California, we helped move the primary restaurant allergen labeling legislation in america. Beginning July 2026, California eating places with 20 or extra places within the U.S. should label the highest meals allergens. This legislative win will give households extra eating selections in California. We’re already utilizing this momentum to advocate for clearer allergen labeling in eating places nationwide.

Validating the First Meals Allergy Motion Plan

This yr, we launched the primary validated meals allergy motion plan backed by analysis we supported. The Meals Allergy Anaphylaxis Motion Plan gives clear, age-specific steps to handle life-threatening reactions in order that households can act shortly and confidently.

Obtain your free Meals Allergy Motion Plan.

Advocating for Extra Therapy Decisions

Our 2025 Modernizing Epinephrine Stocking Legal guidelines Advocacy Toolkit helps households and policymakers replace outdated legal guidelines so colleges, childcare facilities, and public areas can inventory the FDA-approved epinephrine that most accurately fits their wants.

Obtain, print, and share the toolkit.

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AAFA is releasing an up to date toolkit in early 2026 that includes all the things you might want to know concerning the 19 epinephrine-stocking legal guidelines handed this yr. Keep tuned.

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Releasing AAFA’s 2025 State Honor Roll™

We launched AAFA’s 2025 State Honor Roll™, evaluating how nicely states shield college students with bronchial asthma and allergy symptoms in colleges. The corresponding advocacy toolkit helps households begin conversations with native leaders and push for stronger protections.

Learn extra concerning the core insurance policies and the way your state charges.

Defending Youngsters with Meals Allergic reactions Act Progress

AAFA helped safe a serious step ahead for meals allergy administration in colleges nationwide: the U.S. Senate handed the bipartisan Defending Youngsters with Meals Allergic reactions Act. The invoice would require college meals service workers nationwide to obtain coaching to forestall, acknowledge, and reply to food-related allergic reactions.

Thanks to our advocates who took motion. The vote is pending within the Home.

We’re proud to have championed this laws led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ailing) and Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE). Thanks to our advocates whose actions helped make this legislation a actuality.

Advancing Elijah’s Regulation

AAFA is proud to work with the Elijah-Alavi Basis to assist Elijah’s Regulation round america. Elijah’s Regulation honors the reminiscence of 3-year-old Elijah Silvera, who died from anaphylaxis at his childcare heart in 2017. The legislation requires youngster care facilities to take steps to handle kids’s meals allergy symptoms whereas of their care.

This yr, Arkansas (HB 1817) turned the sixth state to move this laws. We’re working to move Elijah’s Regulation in additional states. AAFA testified earlier than the Youngsters and Youth Committee within the Pennsylvania Home of Delegates this yr alongside Thomas Silvera, Elijah’s father.

Shaping Higher Care

This yr, we:

• Assisted in recruiting for 31 analysis research and medical trials. That is greater than double the variety of research we helped recruit for final yr. This continued progress reveals the worth of AAFA’s group voice in analysis.
• Printed 7 manuscripts in medical journals centered on affected person experiences and priorities with bronchial asthma and meals allergy, in addition to opinions of remedy choices for bronchial asthma and persistent hives. AAFA’s advisory function in these manuscripts helps guarantee affected person voices are represented within the medical literature.
• Authored 14 displays at main skilled conferences. These displays allowed us to share affected person experiences with bronchial asthma, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), meals allergy, and nasal polyps with well being care suppliers and public well being professionals nationwide.

Our poster, “Boundaries to Gastroenterology Referrals in EoE,” earned a prestigious Poster of Distinction award at Digestive Ailments Week – putting within the prime 10% of all displays. This recognition proves that affected person experiences belong on the heart of medical analysis.

What’s Subsequent: 2026 and Past

These victories belong to you and to everybody who stands with Youngsters with Meals Allergic reactions.

We’re pleased with what we completed collectively this yr, however there’s nonetheless extra to do.

In 2026, we’re pushing to increase clear allergen labeling, enhance entry to life-saving remedies throughout extra states, and strengthen the boldness households have to thrive.