[Provision against food allergy in the school lunch program in Japan].
BACKGROUND
We speculated that 130000 students suffer from food allergy in Japan. We have had no information about food allergy students at school diet.


METHODS
The Aggregate Corporation of All Japan School Dietician Conference cooperated with our investigation. We sent a questionnaire by mail to all school dieticians who belong with the conference.


RESULTS
We could collect up 10190 cooking place and 8035306 students. The cooking places which didn't investigate food allergy accounted for 1031 facilities. Although food allergy children were in the school, the cooking place which didn't take measures to prevent food allergy in school diet accounted for 1031 facilities. 5476 cooking places supplied school diet which managed food allergy students. But alterative school diet was supplied only 2122 cooking places.


CONCLUSIONS
We could know current state of food allergy in school diet. We must develop to take measure against food allergy accidents at the school diet for food allergy students.
Imai
Takanori
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Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Japan. ta-imai@sagamihara-hosp.gr.jp
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004034:Diet Surveys; D004045:Dietary Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005522:Food Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires