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Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is the world’s largest funder of food allergy research, as well as the largest United States non-profit organization that focuses on food allergy awareness. It includes a Teen Advisory Group (TAG) that FARE’s website explains “serves as FARE’s voice for the teen and young adult food allergy community. BACK PAGES Inhalation OctOber 2024 35 FARE's Teen Advisory Group (TAG) pursues initiatives to support food-allergic community Food Allergy Research & Educa- tion (FARE) is the world's largest funder of food allergy research, as well as the largest United States non-profit organization that focuses on food allergy aware- ness. It includes a Teen Advisory Group (TAG) that FARE's web- site explains "serves as FARE's voice for the teen and young adult food allergy community. Its mem- bers, ages 11 to 22 years old, from around the US, want to make a dif- ference for people managing food allergies. ey help lead FARE's youth programs, write content for FARE, serve as mentors for other teens with allergies and represent FARE at national events." TAG is pursuing a variety of food-allergy related initiatives including: • Allergy Advocate Toolbox: A guidebook that can help food-allergic students, ages kin- dergarten to 12th grade, learn to advocate for themselves at school. (See the next section of this article for details.) • Securing Safe Food (SSF): A nonprofit organization work- ing to increase accessibility of allergen- free foods and fight food insecurity. • Nourish America: Works with food banks in New Jersey and the Tri-State area to provide allergy-friendly food options and address food insecurity. • Allergy Friendly Choices: Works with the Houston Food Bank to ensure families facing food allergies and food insecu- rity have access to safe foods. • TAG Tackles Food Insecurity; In partnership with the Food Equality Initiative (FEI): Learn- ing how US school districts approach the needs of students with food allergies. e data can prove the need for funding. • "Save a Life: e Epinephrine Auto-Injector Song" can help people learn and remember how to calmly use an epineph- rine auto-injector. • Emerging Allergy Treatments (EAT): An online newspaper that reports on recent treat- ments and developments in food allergy. • Cooking with Food Allergies: A website that provides allergy- friendly recipes, blog posts, tips and examples of growing up with allergies. • e Allergy Avocat: A blog that shares information on food- allergy awareness and allergy- friendly recipes. • Teen Taste Panel Report: TAG members researched and reviewed food-allergy-friendly sweets. • "It's a Beautiful Life:" A book of individual experiences about living with food allergies, offer- ing encouragement and demon- strating how to show care and empathy. • Airlines and Allergies: To help those with food allergies avoid negative experiences while fly- ing by reporting strengths and shortcomings of 36 airlines and discussing preparations for air travel. (In July 2024, FARE began boycotting the MARS Company, due to its "Hungry Skies" advertising campaign. e ads encourage travelers to bring Snickers ® candy bars aboard airplanes to relieve stress while traveling. However, those candy bars contain peanuts, which can be life-threating for some food-allergic patients. For