[LeeE (OP)]

Below is a link to a 'popular' news article, about an item concerning hysteria published in the BMJ.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/nut_allergy_hysteria/

[DoctorBeaver]

conclusion of that article:-

Which, we reckon, can more or less be summarised as: "Your kids are not going to die from exposure to peanut butter. Now get a grip on yourself, you nutter."

100% agree. I think I've posted about this in another thread.

What next? Only specialist nut shops to sell foodstuffs containing nuts or nut products?

[Make it Lady]

I once wrote a sketch about an air hostess who walked up the aeroplane ignoring people with dinamite, guns, knuckle dusters and swords. She then shouted at a woman at the back of the plane who had just openned a bag of nuts, claiming that they were a lethal weapon. 

[JnA]

I don't see why the rest of us should miss out on nuts just because a few children *might* die.

Mr G (Summer Heights High)