• AllNewTypeFace
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    16 hours ago

    Peanuts are easy enough to eliminate from catering. Airlines don’t serve any food containing peanuts, in case there’s a passenger on board with an allergy severe enough to be set off by peanut aroma in recycled air, so if one assumes that prisons have a nominal duty of care for inmates at least to the point of not killing any accidentally, it’d follow that they also abolish peanuts from their food.

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      12 hours ago

      There’s no evidence to support severe allergic reactions from airborne nut particles, fwiw. Reactions occur from ingestion or skin contact, not air.

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      16 hours ago

      Airplanes constantly turn over the cabin air 10-15x per hour with bleed air from the engines. This then heads out the outflow valves to the exterior of the airplane.

      The recirculating fans have HEPA filters on them, but the majority of air is fresh.

      Even with no peanuts on board, there still can be contamination of the other foods served on board, not to mention residue from previous passengers snacks.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dpkpjjnw2o