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Newest information from Meals Allergy Canada – October 2024

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#ShineATealLight and assist make Halloween inclusive for everybody! Discover suggestions, instruments and different assets that can assist you and your loved ones navigate this vacation with confidence – and be taught how one can assist us unfold consciousness with our #ShineATealLight marketing campaign. Find out about our Suppose Meals Allergy initiative for the foodservice business, and register for this month’s webinar which seems at prospects for meals allergy therapies sooner or later. Plus, discover suggestions and obtain assets for celebrating holidays this fall. 


#ShineATealLight on meals allergy this Halloween

It’s the Halloween season! #ShineATealLight to assist us make it a extra inclusive one, whereas growing meals allergy consciousness. Plus, make the most of our suggestions and methods that can assist you navigate the vacation with confidence.  

Tips to keep kids safeIdeas and methods

Learn the way you and your loved ones might be assured whereas trick-or-treating and at Halloween events, and what to do with undesirable sweet afterwards.

Plus, try our tip sheet for internet hosting a spooktacular social gathering, and trick-or-treat with NextDoor, the neighbourhood community. Discover homes which are shining a teal gentle in your neighbourhood, and add your home to the deal with map!

Free ResourcesShareable assets

Share our free assets to point out the way you’re celebrating Halloween in a secure and inclusive method for all.

Obtain and share posters, make crafts, and extra with your loved ones and pals. Try our Halloween #FoodAllergyHacks and share them with others.

#ShineATealLight on Food AllergyGet entangled this Halloween

There are other ways to #ShineATealLight this Halloween season.

You possibly can attend a teal monument lighting close to you (there are 29 monuments to this point!), buy a teal gentle on your porch, or create teal gentle crafts to share with your loved ones and pals. Plus, take a take heed to Kyle Dine’s Shine A Gentle music!

FundraiseDrive consciousness and assist

This Halloween season, host a fundraiser to assist meals allergy consciousness. Select from our totally different occasion concepts.

Plus, assist our charity whereas selling consciousness and sparking conversations by buying our unique #ShineATealLight glow-in-the-dark bracelets – simply $5 or 3 for $10. Buy earlier than October twenty third to get them in time for Halloween.


Many because of our supporters for being #FoodAllergyChampions!

We actually admire the generosity of the organizations under for donating a substantial quantity of media house all through October so we may unfold consciousness and drive inclusivity with our #ShineATealLight marketing campaign.  

  • VENDO Media  for donating a big quantity of out of doors billboard house throughout Canada.
  • Captivate Community  for donating an in depth community of workplace foyer and elevator promoting throughout Canada.
  • Adapt Media  for donating a considerable amount of retail house the place our adverts appeared in unbiased comfort shops and small grocery and retail shops inside metropolis centres, busy intersections, and rental improvement areas.
  • UB Media  for donating a big quantity of promoting house throughout their nationwide networks, together with main post-secondary campuses, and eating places/bars.
VENDO Media: Outside billboard screens
Adapt Media: Adverts showing in retail areas
Captivate Community: Foyer adverts
Captivate Community: Elevator adverts


Newly launched: Recipe for Success shopper report and Suppose Meals Allergy launch – important instruments and assets for foodservice  

Our new shopper report, “Recipe for Success: How allergy-aware eating places drive loyalty and increase their backside line” shares the eating experiences of Canadians with meals allergy and divulges untapped alternatives for eating places to develop a loyal shopper base and achieve market share by being allergy conscious.  

An article by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Director of the Agri-Meals Analytics Lab at Dalhousie College, highlights our analysis and the way our group has lengthy been on the forefront of advocating for higher allergy administration within the foodservice business.  

In assist of our neighborhood and in collaboration with the foodservice business, we now have launched our Suppose Meals Allergy initiative to higher equip foodservice operators with the instruments wanted to coach workers on meals allergy fundamentals and create safer, extra inclusive environments of their institutions. Should you’re within the foodservice business, or wish to share with the eating places you frequent, obtain our assets and instruments at ThinkFoodAllergy.ca

Suppose Meals Allergy
Recipe for Success: Client report

Webinar October 23rd: Future outlook of meals allergy therapies

Be a part of us to listen to from Dr. Cecilia Berin about what’s on the horizon for meals allergy therapies and the science behind them. Register now. 

What the webinar is about: Therapies for meals allergy and the way they work, together with: 

  • allergen immunotherapy and its varied kinds 
  • biologics which goal particular organic pathways 
  • newer therapeutic approaches 

Who’s presenting: Dr. Cecilia Berin, the Bunning Professor for Meals Allergy Analysis at Northwestern College Feinberg Faculty of Medication. Her analysis is targeted on understanding the immune foundation of allergy and tolerance to meals. 



Celebrating with confidence 

Yom Kippur, Thanksgiving, and Diwali are all developing, it’s a time when it’s possible you’ll be coming collectively for meals with household and pals. Earlier than you have fun the vacations this fall, try our assets you possibly can share to assist improve meals allergy consciousness across the desk. Plus, uncover our recommendations on managing varied eating experiences with confidence.  

Examine components

Ingredient label

You should definitely do the “triple test” for merchandise bought in-store and on-line. Elements might change with out warning, and so they might range from what’s listed on the product versus on a web site. 

Plus, firms might create particular “vacation” editions of their merchandise, which might be distinguished by totally different packaging. Though the product itself might look the identical, the components might differ from the common model, as they might be manufactured in a special facility. You will need to learn the ingredient label rigorously from begin to end, together with any “might include” statements, on all product sizes and variations, even when it has been “secure” previously. 

Kitchen suggestions and recipes 

Should you’re internet hosting, learn our suggestions to assist keep away from the chance of cross-contamination. Plus, uncover our allergy-friendly recipes for anytime of the 12 months. 

Household get-togethers

Prep for celebrations with household – it all the time helps to have a technique for the day. Learn the way with our suggestions. 

Consuming out

Should you’re consuming out, it’s necessary to plan forward. Learn our recommendations on what do to earlier than you go and while you’re there.  

Carry your epinephrine

You should definitely carry your epinephrine auto-injectors with you and double-check that they’re in-date. Discover extra auto-injector recommendations on our epinephrine sheet.  



Tags: #ShineATealLight, foodservice, vacation suggestions, ThinkFoodAllergy, webinar

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