Olive Garden, Wendy's, and Chick-fil-A are suddenly adding sesame to popular foods like bread sticks and buns, and people with allergies are furious
Once a week, Kelly Meyer and her 3-year-old son, Alexander, would stop at Chick-fil-A or Wendy's after a day at Disney World in Florida. With Alexander's seven food allergies, including sesame, she said she considered these fast-fast chains safe havens for eating.On January 1, sesame joined eight other major food allergens that the Food and Drug Administration required to be listed on packaged foods and beverages as part of the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research Act.
Wendy's told Insider the chain used"a number of suppliers and some of them have elected to add sesame flour to our premium and value buns as well as our Homestyle French Toast Sticks" to address sesame being added to the FASTER Act as of January 1.Chick-fil-A and Olive Garden also punted the blame to suppliers.
Turano Baking, Bimbo Bakeries USA, and Kurz & Co., which have supplied baked goods for Chick-fil-A, Wendy's, and Olive Garden, declined to comment or did not return requests for comment. She said Wyatt, her teenage son, was allergic to sesame, which made"every fast-food meal a possible emergency call" for him.
"This is an extremely stressful issue for my patients who already have so many limitations on their diet," he said.
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