Woman dies eating meal she ordered many times after restaurant changes menu

Alison Pickering, 23, a pupil astatine Tarleton State University, successful Stephenville, Texas, went to a edifice wherever she had "repeatedly" eaten but unbeknown to her they changed the ingredients for her dish

A pistillate with a nut allergy who went to devour astatine her regular edifice arsenic mean has tragically died aft the paper was changed.

Alison Pickering took attraction with what she ate owed to a peanut allergy and would debar sauces and dips which whitethorn person contained seed extracts.

But the 23-year-old was eating astatine a edifice she visited "repeatedly" portion retired connected a day successful May, 2023, a fewer days earlier she graduated from Tarleton State University, successful Stephenville, Texas, erstwhile she became ill.

It was not the archetypal clip that she had ordered the repast and erstwhile she was fixed the mahi-mahi she was definite it was harmless but sadly the edifice had changed the look truthful that it present included peanut sauce.

When she became sick she utilized her Epipen and an ambulance came but she rapidly deteriorated and died with her parents present wanting to dispersed consciousness of the dangers from allergies.

Mislabelling nutrient items tin easy beryllium done if not capable attraction is fixed to it and it tin person devastating consequences said Alison's parents Joy and Grover Pickering.

"She would repeatedly spell to the aforesaid restaurants and bid the aforesaid dishes, you know. And that was a communal thing," Mr Pickering told CBS News.

He continued: "She took a fewer bites, realized thing was wrong. She did her Epipen. The ambulance came. She really walked to the ambulance talking to them, but determination on the mode things went downhill."

Alison passed distant from the incidental connected May 12, 2023. She had gone into anaphylactic daze aft ingesting the peanuts, according to her obituary. Her parents are looking to dispersed consciousness astir nutrient information particularly astatine restaurants. In Alison's case, the hold unit weren't informed of the paper change.

Last year, the Texas Legislature passed the Sergio Lopez Food Allergy Awareness Act, named aft Sergio Lopez who besides died from unknowingly ingesting peanuts successful 2014, reported the Irish Star.

The enactment requires nutrient work establishments to summation allergy consciousness by displaying posters that incorporate accusation astir nutrient allergies and however to respond to allergic reactions. It besides requires "food grooming programs and the nutrient manager certification exam to see nutrient allergies arsenic the subject."