And for that reason we bring sealed food (candy in a wrapper).  One nice giveaway are sugar bricks that look like legos. Mostly sugar and food coloring.  We did that one year.



On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Phil Smith III <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Yeah, taking out the competition due to anaphylactic shock is NOT Gracious Professionalism!

 

OTOH, these aren’t tiny kids, and there’s usually food for sale that also isn’t going to be vetted that carefully, so I’m not convinced this is a reason to not take stuff.

 

Perhaps in the spirit of Food Factor, clearly label things with ingredients.

 

From: First Lego League in Virginia and DC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Lusco
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:12 AM


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Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] Team give aways

 

Another reason to avoid food in giveaways is that a fair percentage of participants have food allergies. Between nuts, peanuts, milk and wheat/gluten (4 of the most common allergies) you take out a lot of available food giveaways. Probably the only thing generally safe is pure sugars.

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