Originally Posted by
Peter T.
As others have noted in the past, there's usually bits and pieces of peanuts (and peanuts wrappers) left in the seatback pockets and even on the floor of the cabin. One would expect WN to do a thorough cleaning before someone with a peanut allergy boards their planes.
As noted on other threads, most people have an allergy only to ingesting peanuts, but will be okay so long as it's X feet away. This is why WN can still distribute nuts on most flights. So to answer your question, most people are fine without extraordinary cleaning. However there are always a few extreme cases... The problem is weeding out the extreme ones from the overly-neurotic headcases.
Originally Posted by
Peter T.
But I do wonder at times if this is really necessary. That's all.
Yes, it is. People with unusually severe allergies can die.
Originally Posted by
normalone
Yes. Virtually all schools now have "peanut free" sections in their lunchrooms and classrooms with students with peanut allergies are "peanut free classrooms" where students cannot have peanut products in their snacks, etc.
This is true at every school my kids have attended. The pre-schools are all "nut free" zones and the public schools have nut free zones for lunch.
BTW, I don't have a horse here, nobody I know is allergic to nuts. But I am surprised at the level of intolerance. It is not as if anyone is proposing to ban alcohol
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