ABSTRACT
Food allergy is an immune system-mediated adverse reaction to food proteins that can affect multiple organs. Organ/systemic involvement includes cutaneous, gastrointestinal, respiratory, oral, and generalized reactions, including potentially lethal anaphylaxis (1,2). Reports of anaphylactic episodes are updated in a registry of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (3). This registry has been maintained continuously to represent a systematic, although incomplete, accounting of fatal food-induced allergic reactions in the United States.
