Hi,

My 6 yr old daughter has a severe allergy to milk and I cook most of her
food from scratch.  Recently I came across the above listed product in
the frozen section of a local store.  The nuggets are marked kosher, not
parve.  There is an ingredient in the breading called natural flavor.  I
called the Empire Company and two different customer service reps told
me that because of kosher rules there cannot be milk protein included in
a chicken product (which seems correct to me).  The "natural flavor" in
the breading ingredient is the juice rendered from the kosher process of
preparing the chicken meat.  This all sounds reasonable to me but I am
concerned that the product is not marked Parve if it is totally milk
-free.  Any input out there?

Also, my daughter is seriously allergic to garlic.  One of the
ingredients listed in the batter is spices.  When I asked whether garlic
was one of the spices used I was told that US government regulations
require garlic to be listed separately if it is an ingredient in a
product - it can't be bundled under "spices".  Does anyone know if this
is correct?  If so, I wish I had known this six years ago - it would
have saved many telephone calls checking out ingredients.

thx much for any info

K. Flanagan