Eat Smart Award

Once again, Trafalgar Castle School has been recognized by the Durham Regional Council for the Eat Smart Award. This award is given to eating establishments that “offer more options in grain products, vegetables and fruit, and offer entrees and desserts with less fat. Customers can also ask for healthy substitutions such as salad. The food safety component of the program requires restaurants to show compliance with the province’s food premises regulations and have at least one staff member per shift certified in safe food handling.” For more information, see www.region.durham.on.ca

Congratulations to our talented kitchen staff.

NUT POLICY

Trafalgar Castle School has many students who suffer from severe nut allergies.  Even trace amounts of a problem food can cause a life threatening anaphylactic reaction.

In an attempt to make our school environment safe for all students, we have implemented a Nut-Aware policy (including peanuts, walnuts, cashews, almonds and all other Tree Nuts .). You can help us to maintain a Nut-Aware school by keeping all nut products away from the school. PLEASE READ ALL LABELS.  "Accidents" happen when foods labelled "may contain" or "traces of" are brought to school. Nut products are no longer permitted in the boarding school.

For Day students please refrain from consuming Nut products before entering the school.

SAGUENAY, Quebec - A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.

Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.

Desforges, who lived in Saguenay, about 155 miles north of Quebec City, was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, a standard tool for treating the anaphylactic shock brought on by a peanut allergy, officials said an autopsy was being performed. Dr. Nina Verreault, an allergist at the Chicoutimi Hospital in Saguenay, declined to comment on the case.

The symptoms of peanut allergy can include hives, plunging blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat, which can block breathing.

Article taken from MSNBC

Our goal is to prevent allergic reactions and awareness is the key.  Please help us make the school safe for every student.

For mor information on Food Allergies please go to:

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/allerg/allerge.shtml

Other names for tree nuts

Anacardium nuts
Mandelonas (e.g. peanuts that have been altered to look and taste like tree nuts)
Marzipan (almond paste)
Nu-Nuts™ (e.g. peanuts that have been altered to look and taste like tree nuts)
Nut meats
Pinon