The actual conditions and issues in responding to food allergies during disasters

A case study of core cities

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed the actual conditions and issues in responding to food allergies based on questionnaires to core cities. The outline is as follows, (1) More than 90% of core cities stock allergy-friendly foods, indicating that they take patients who have allergic into consideration required by law. (2) The largest number of core cities have no specific method of notification or distribution about countermeasures for food allergies. Many of them also do not emphasize variation in stocks, and the total dispersion of the 2-4 components, which are from the administrator's perspective, is about twice the dispersion of the 1 component, which is from the party's perspective. (3) Core cities should announce that they have already considered patients with food allergies. They should also take countermeasures from the point of view of the people concerned.