Protecting Children with Food Allergies Act of 2025

Last progress April 10, 2025 (10 months ago)

Introduced on April 10, 2025 by Richard Joseph Durbin

Who is affected and how:

• Local food service personnel (school and child nutrition program staff) will need to receive training that includes food-allergy prevention, recognition, and response. This likely means updating existing training curricula or adding supplemental modules.
• Students and children who receive meals through Child Nutrition Act programs stand to benefit from improved allergy awareness and faster, better responses to allergic reactions, potentially reducing medical incidents.
• K-12 schools and other institutions operating federally supported meal programs will face a small operational impact: time to deliver training, potential costs for materials or trainers, and administrative updates to certification records. The legislation text does not provide funding, so these costs would ordinarily be covered by existing program budgets or local resources.
• State and local education agencies or program administrators will need to incorporate the new content into their oversight and certification processes to ensure compliance.

Overall effect: The change is targeted and operational—focused on safety and staff preparedness—rather than program expansion or funding. It likely yields public-health benefits (fewer or better-managed allergic reactions) with modest implementation costs for training updates and recordkeeping.