"Really, the safest thing you can do is make all your food at home from scratch, period," says Margaret Sova McCabe of Sanbornton, N.H., whose son Tommie, almost 8, is allergic to peanuts, dairy ...

Food labels will soon have to disclose in plain language whether the products contain peanuts, shellfish, eggs or other ingredients that could sicken people with food allergies. A federal law that ...

Most people with egg allergies react to the egg whites, not the yolk. To be safe, don’t eat either part. Even if you separate them, the yolk is likely to have some of the white’s proteins in it.

With a food allergy, it’s always important for you to know what you’re eating.Reading labels is your best way to stay safe. Here are tips for spying out culprits in packaged and prepared foods ...

Kale Wietfeld is an 8-year-old who rarely eats food that hasn’t been prepared by his family. He cannot safely eat in restaurants. At school in Leigh, Nebraska, he sits alone at a lunch table set ...