{"id":1753,"date":"2011-03-22T08:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:10:21","slug":"working-towards-solutions-for-canadians-with-anaphylaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Working towards solutions for Canadians with anaphylaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative is an advocacy effort marshaled by a volunteer group of families from anaphylaxis support associations in communities across Canada. The CAI\u2019s mission is to prompt the federal government to develop a strategic plan to decrease the risks for Canadians living with anaphylaxis (severe, life-threatening allergies) and to educate the public.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative has a 5 point policy request of the federal government.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Federal Coordination \u2013 of programs and services dealing with anaphylaxis and food allergy information<\/li>\n<li>Coordinated Awareness Campaigns \u2013 both targeted and general public information initiatives<\/li>\n<li>Long Term Commitment to Research \u2013 a strategic response and more dollars for research<\/li>\n<li>Improved Allergen Labelling \u2013 for foods, drugs, cosmetic and personal care products\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Improved Transportation Safeguards \u2013 airline and public transportation policies that reduce risk for food allergic passengers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A detailed backgrounder on the 5 point policy request can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nask.ca\/files\/5-Point%20Policy%20Items%20re%20Motion%20546.pdf\">http:\/\/www.nask.ca\/files\/5-Point%20Policy%20Items%20re%20Motion%20546.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about this initiative can be found on the Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Anaphylaxis Initiative is an advocacy effort marshaled by a volunteer group of families from anaphylaxis support associations in communities across Canada. The CAI\u2019s mission is to prompt the federal government to develop a strategic plan to decrease the risks for Canadians living with anaphylaxis (severe, life-threatening allergies) and to educate the public. Canadian Anaphylaxis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}