<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Restaurants in Massachusetts are now required to have someone on staff who has had food allergen awareness training. The training materials are available free online. These materials do a thorough job of discussing the issues such as cross-contamination. It is oriented towards all food allergies, but also includes Celiac Disease. FAAN's page describing this program: http://www.foodallergy.org/page/restaurants <http://www.foodallergy.org/page/restaurants>Food Allergy Training Video: http://mehaonline.net/member-services/food-allergy-training-video.html Training Manual "Welcoming Guests with Food Allergies": http://www.foodallergy.org/files/WelcomingGuests2010.pdf (The manual includes three short quizzes, each one covers about 15 pages of reading) Training manual in Spanish: http://www.foodallergy.org/files/WelcomingGuestsSpanFinal.pdf <http://www.foodallergy.org/files/WelcomingGuestsSpanFinal.pdf> Posters for Restaurants in English and Spanish: http://www.foodallergy.org/page/restaurant-poster *Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the CELIAC List* Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC
