6. Dr Lucy Gibney, an Emergency Room Physician and mother of a child with food allergies was our January 29th speaker.
She presented an informative lecture on food manufacturing issues. Topics she discussed included FALCPA - The Food Allergy
Labeling and Consumer Protection Act. This was initiated by the FAAN (Food Allergy and Anyphlyaxis Network) and became a
law effective January 1st 2006. It requires food companies to declare whether a food product contains any of the 8 main allergens.
The 8 main allergens are peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, milk, soy, wheat, shellfish, and fish. She also discussed the controversy
of the "may contain" language used by many food companies. She informed us that when the FAAN tested foods with the "may
contain peanuts" labeling the offending allergen was found 7% of the time. We thank Dr Gibney for her interesting speech and
yummy treats!
7. Fasgot will have our 3rd meeting on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pm. We will meet at CHKD's 2nd Floor Pediatric
Conference Room. The speaker will be Mary Jo Haney, RD,CSP. She is a Clinical Pediatric Dietician. She would like to focus
her lecture to our needs. Please e-mail questions for her to fasgot@yahoo.com and she will answer them on March 11th!
November 13, 2007 Meeting Minutes
FASGOT held our first meeting on November 13 2007.
We felt the meeting was a success! Thank you to everyone who attended.
Here are some highlights....
1. Babysitting - FASGOT is investigating as to whether or not we need to hire out babysitting services for our future
meetings. If you have ideas or opinions on this subject please contact Michelle.
2. Dr Angela Hogan is the Medical Advisor. Officers were elected. Michelle
Hoang R.N. - President. Dr Lucy Gibney - Vice President, Stacey Hughey
- Social Coordinator. Lisa Miller R.N. - Secretary. Melinda Griffin- Treasurer.
3. Yearly dues will be $20 per family. Potential members have the opportunity to attend 1 meeting before
joining FASGOT.
4. FASGOT will meet 5 times a year. The next meeting will be Tuesday, January 29th from 6-8 p.m. in the
CHKD Pediatric Conference Room. Dr. Lucy Gibney will be our next speaker. Dr. Gibney is an
Emergency Room Physician.
5. Possible future events also include a Fair for Kids and a Food Allergy Walk.
6. Under the direction of Dr. Lucy Gibney, FASGOT will be assisting the Tidewater Nutrition Council in organizing a
Food Allergy Conference coming Spring 2008. If interested in helping with this please contact Dr. Lucy Gibney.
7.
Dr. Angela Hogan presented her slide show that included information on research and hypotheses
as to why food allergies are growing in our country. It highlighted the Nov 5th, 2007 - Newsweek Magazine article
- "Kids and the Growing Food Allergy Threat". This article is on newsstands now, or you can access it online at :
www.newsweek.com/id/62296 We appreciate all of the information and the questions that were answered.
8. Donna Richardson, the Epi-pen representative was at the meeting. We appreciate all of
the helpful items she brought and the questions she answered. She will also attend future meetings.
