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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emily Dugan and agency

Parents of girl who died after eating Pret sandwich launch food allergy study

Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperouse
Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperouse, whose daughter Natasha died in 2016 after a severe allergic reaction, say they hope the trial will make ‘food allergies history’. Photograph: Natasha Allergy Research Foundation/PA Media

The parents of a teenager killed by an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger sandwich say a clinical trial launched in her name “would have meant everything to her”.

The trial will investigate whether peanut and milk products can be used under medical supervision as a treatment to improve tolerance. Announcing it, Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperouse, said their aim was to “make food allergies history”.

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