With May being Food Allergy Awareness Month local MP for Huron-Bruce Ben Lobb spoke in the House on Monday to introduce a motion to further investigate food allergies in our society.
Lobb explains what having allergies mean to those impacted.
“This is a chronic medical condition, defined by its unpredictability, life threatening potential and absence of a cure.”
Food Allergies directly affect more than 3 million Canadians including more than 600,000 children.
Common food allergies include Eggs, fish, milk, peanuts, soy, crustaceans and mollusks.