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"Both cookies have the same red packaging, but Travers-Stafford’s daughter couldn’t see where it said Reeses once the label was peeled back. Despite two injections of epinephrine, the reaction was fatal.
On Monday June 25, our 15 year old daughter, Alexi Ryann Stafford, while at a friends house, made a fatal choice. There was an open package of Chips Ahoy cookies, the top flap of the package was pulled back and the packaging was too similar to what we had previously deemed “safe” to her. She ate one cookie of chewy Chips Ahoy thinking it was safe because of the “red” packaging, only to find out too late that there was an added ingredient…. Reese peanut butter cups/chips. She started feeling tingling in her mouth and came straight home. Her condition rapidly deteriorated. She went into Anaphylactic shock, stopped breathing and went unconscious. We administered 2 epi pens while she was conscious and waited on paramedics for what felt like an eternity.
She died within 1& 1/2 hour of eating the cookie…
The company has different colored packaging to indicate chunky, chewy, or regular but NO screaming warnings about such a fatal ingredient to many people. Especially children. It’s important to us to spread awareness so that this horrible mistake doesn’t happen again.
Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that can be life-threatening. It can happen in a matter of seconds or minutes after being exposed to something you are allergic to. During anaphylaxis, your blood pressure drops and airways narrow, making it difficult to breathe. Anaphylaxis requires an injection of epinephrine and a follow-up visit to an emergency room. Without emergency intervention, these allergic reactions can be fatal.
The peanut allergy community rallied around Travers-Stafford, asking Chips Ahoy!’s parent company for better packaging to avoid another fatality."
She didn't bother to look at the branding on the *side* of the packaging? Common sense would dictate that. You don't go by just color alone. Anybody with less than an hour's experience stocking market shelves could tell you that.
There's sometiuhng more to this that social media/the alarmist mass media aren't telling.
She didn't bother to look at the branding on the *side* of the packaging? Common sense would dictate that. You don't go by just color alone. Anybody with less than an hour's experience stocking market shelves could tell you that.
There's sometiuhng more to this that social media/the alarmist mass media aren't telling.
From the photo I saw, it was picture of Reese's on the front of the packaging.
My store doesn't carry this particular variety (shame!-- would like to try them) but if it's like any of the other varieties they show it in the top and the long sides of the box. I believe they have to under federal product labelling regulations.
Like I said, as usual with the commercial mass media something's not getting reported. Not buying it.
She didn't bother to look at the branding on the *side* of the packaging? Common sense would dictate that. You don't go by just color alone. Anybody with less than an hour's experience stocking market shelves could tell you that.
There's sometiuhng more to this that social media/the alarmist mass media aren't telling.
The child was 15. It could have been simple ignorance.
Nope. That's not a valid excuse. If she indeed had a food allergy she should have known to look at the packaging first before just reaching in and grabbing a bite. I have known food-allergic consumers since, like, junior high and all knew to do that.
The child was 15. It could have been simple ignorance.
Barring some mental disability, a 15 year old is not a "child". A tragic death nonetheless.
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