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		</div><p>The parents of a girl who died after eating a Pret A Manger sandwich will meet Environment Secretary Michael Gove later to call for a law change requiring all foods to be labelled clearly with any allergens.</p>
<p>Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, of Fulham, west London, collapsed on board a flight to Nice in 2016 after eating a sandwich she bought at Heathrow Airport containing sesame seeds, to which she was allergic.<br />
She later in hospital, aged 15.</p>
<p>Natasha’s father Nadim said at an inquest earlier this month that she died because of “inadequate food labelling laws” as the packaging did not mention the baguette contained the seeds.</p>
<p>He told BBC Breakfast on Tuesday: “We really, really want this change to the law to come in very quickly indeed to remove any possibility of people dying in the way our child did, in a very tragic way.<br />
“There’s a real mish-mash of information out there.</p>
<p>“Some people label correctly, some don’t and some halfway. When you’re presented with a high street with different chain stores all labelling differently, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_119403" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-119403" style="width: 515px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/C04F9ACC-DB26-4AC7-84EB-17AD0D5FEF4C.jpeg"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/C04F9ACC-DB26-4AC7-84EB-17AD0D5FEF4C.jpeg" alt="" width="515" height="847" class="size-full wp-image-119403" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-119403" class="wp-caption-text">Natasha Ednan-Laperouse</figcaption></figure>
<p>The meeting with Mr Gove will take place on Tuesday afternoon. The Environment Secretary said the family is “absolutely right” to say the law needs to be changed. He added:</p>
<p>“I think their case is compelling and we need to act quickly in order to ensure that we have the best possible protection in place.”</p>
<p>Natasha’s mother Tanya told BBC Breakfast:</p>
<p>“We taught Natasha to trust labels, to trust ingredients, she learned all the different words for different allergens.<br />
“She could read a label and understand it by the time she was nine years old. It was very much a part of our life.</p>
<p>“There mustn’t be confusion with labels, it really does need to be standardised – if there is a label it should be the same everywhere.”</p>
<blockquote><p>Natasha’s case has really put a spotlight on the kind of horrors that can happen in our country today</p></blockquote>
<p>Asked how swiftly a change in the law could be brought about, she told the interviewer: “We assume that food companies know where their foods come from … and what they end up having in the foods that they sell.</p>
<p>“So why would it be difficult to label ingredients on a simple sticker? We don’t get the complication, and apparently there’s a large cost involved and again we don’t really understand that either.”</p>
<p>Mr Ednan-Laperouse added: “Natasha’s case has really put a spotlight on the kind of horrors that can happen in our country today.</p>
<p>“When all around there’s so much information and yet all at once there’s so little information about the food that we eat.”</p>
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