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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 982 

Designating May 28, 2020, as the first annual ‘‘National Food Allergy Prevention Awareness Day’’ to raise awareness and encourage the prevention 

of severe food allergies among children. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 28, 2020 

Ms. BROWNLEY of California (for herself, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. 

ROSE of New York, and Mr. CICILLINE) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

RESOLUTION 

Designating May 28, 2020, as the first annual ‘‘National 

Food Allergy Prevention Awareness Day’’ to raise awareness and encourage the prevention of severe food allergies among children. 

Whereas 32 million Americans live with food allergies, including many that are life-threatening, and the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention reports that the prevalence of food allergies in children increased by 50 percent 

between 1997 and 2011; 

Whereas food allergies have an enormous impact on quality 

of life for the 1 in 13 children who develops a severe food 

allergy, and one-third of children over the age of 5 with 

allergies are bullied for their allergy; 


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Whereas there is an annual cost to families in the United 

States of nearly $25 billion per year, not including the 

impact to quality of life; 

Whereas many children who develop a food allergy do not 

have a family history of food allergies, and therefore the 

family is much less aware of the life-changing consequences of developing a food allergy and the need for 

food allergy prevention; 

Whereas research has shown that early introduction has 

shown promise in reducing the impact of food allergies in 

studies where parents feed peanuts and eggs, allergenic 

foods, to their babies as early as 4 to 6 months of age; 

and 

Whereas medical guidelines from the American Academy of 

Pediatrics and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommend early peanut introduction 

with different approaches depending on the child’s risk 

category of developing an allergy: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) supports the designation of the first annual 

3 ‘‘National Food Allergy Prevention Awareness Day’’; 

4 (2) recognizes— 

5 (A) the National Institutes of Health and 

6 the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 

7 Diseases for funding the initial food allergy pre8 vention research through the Learning Early 

9 About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial; and 


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1 (B) the advocacy community for its work 

2 to educate parents about food allergy preven3 tion; 

4 (3) encourages health care providers, the public 

5 health community, businesses, individuals, and Fed6 eral, State, and local governments, to work together 

7 to raise awareness of food allergy prevention to re8 duce the number of individuals in the United States 

9 who have severe food allergies; and 

10 (4) encourages State and Federal health agen11 cies to further expand research in food allergy pre12 vention and into how we can dramatically reduce 

13 food allergies in the United States. 

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