These are four symptoms of someone who has an intolerance to dairy products?
What is abdominal distress, bloating, gas, diarrhea?
100
This federal agency regulates the labeling of most foods.
What is the FDA?
100
Children eventually outgrow these 4 allergens.
What is milk, egg, soy, and wheat?
100
The percentage of people over 5 that food allergies affect.
What is 4 percent?
200
Food allergies affect this percent of children under the age of 5.
What is 5 percent?
200
This is the first step in diagnosing lactose intolerance?
What is temporarily removing all milk products from a person's diet?
200
This is also known as celiac disease.
What is gluten intolerance?
200
This is the enzyme that breaks down lactose in your gut.
What is lactase?
200
The procedure for testing to see if a person is intolerant to gluten.
What is a blood test?
300
The procedure for testing to see if a person is lactose intolerant.
What is a Hydrogen-Breath test?
300
Gluten intolerance can lead to these four things.
What are malnutrition, osteoporosis, infertility, and digestive-tract cancers?
300
An immune system response that occurs when the body mistakes an ingredient in food as harmful and creates a defense system to fight it.
What is a food allergy?
300
The most common food allergies.
What are milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans?
300
A digestive system response that occurs when something in a food irritates a person's digestive system or when a person is unable to properly digest food.
What is a food intolerance?
400
An tolerance to dairy stems from this.
What is a negative reaction to lactose?
400
This is the time that a person generally develops food allergies.
What is early in life?
400
People with high allergic reactions to food are generally prescribed this.
What is an epinephrine injector or epi-pen?
400
These are the two most commonly used food allergen advisory statements.
What are "may contain [allergen]" and "produced in a facility that also uses [allergen]?
400
This is the only way to know for sure if you have a dairy or gluten intolerance.
What is diagnostic tests?
500
Children are much less likely to outgrow these two allergies.
What are peanuts and tree nuts?
500
These are two ways that an allergen's food source name must be declared on a food label?
What is in parentheses or immediately after or next to the list of ingredients?
500
The acronym for this is FALCPA.
What is Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act?
500
Gluten is a set of proteins in these three food products.
What is wheat, barley, and rye?
500
The year Congress pass a law that was aimed at protecting with allergies?