Mum welcomes new allergy law after daughter suffers severe allergic reaction

Getting tea ready in Becca Bull's house takes a lot of planning. Every ingredient must be checked and double checked for nuts after her daughter's allergy was discovered during a meal when she was just eight months old.

The Cardiff mum quickly rang for an ambulance as her daughter was struggling to breathe and was covered in hives.

"Once we were in the ambulance, even the paramedics I could sense were starting to get a bit worried", she said.

"I said to them ,her hives are spreading throughout her body. She was crying, and the cry seemed quite high pitched.

"They were concerned that she was starting to wheeze a little bit and that possibly her airways were now starting to become restricted. So they gave her the adrenaline and we went into the hospital where she was monitored and we stayed there overnight.

"I just didn't sleep, and was just really worried."

In 2016, teenager Natasha Eb Natasha Ednan-Laperouse was 15-years-old when she suffered a fatal allergic reaction from a Pret A Manger sandwich.

The teenager died after consuming the artichoke and olive tapenade baguette on a flight from Heathrow airport to Nice with her father Nadim and best friend Bethany Holloway.

The baguette for Natasha's sandwich had sesame seeds, which she was severely allergic, baked into the dough. They weren't listed in the ingredients.

Now a law in her name has been enforced which will require full ingredient and allergen labelling on all food made on premises and pre-packed for direct sale.

Alison Farrar from Trading Standards Wales said: "It's really difficult for food businesses to know exactly what to do in regards to allergens. This piece of legislation makes it a lot clearer on who needs to do what and at what point"

Natasha's Law came into force on October 1st, 2021.