I am so thankful I never had to deal with allergies with any of my kids. It sure does make every day life incredibly difficult

This is absolutely heartbreaking. Children with allergies have to be taught to read the allergens list on the packaging of all processed foods. Adults have to remember to read them too.

How tragic is this ! You did well keeping her safe all these years !
It would be good to have a screaming warning on packages about this dangerous fatal ingredient to many.

Poor girl I feel sorry for the family we don’t have allergies but will never buy those biscuits anymore

So sad for the family and for her friend, guilt will follow her about this but no-one should be blamed.

What a terrible tragedy – my heart goes out to you in your loss – even at 15 one cannot be expected to read every label to make sure the ingredients are OK. So sorry for you.

Such a tragedy that should never have happened. So sorry for their loss on such a beautiful daughter.

Just terrible for this family. I agree education and awareness are crucial with allergies but this case seems to be more a case of accident/misjudgement by the girl. Unfortunately teenagers are teenagers and even having a life threatening allergy she still mistakenly had the food without properly checking the packaging. So sorry for the family and RIP

Such a terribly sad story. My heart goes out to the family.

That is such a sad story. My heart goes out to both families.

Very sad, you would think that her friends would have been aware of her condition and really shouldn’t have had them out when she was over.

Oh my, this is so sad and devastating for a family who has obviously been really diligent about their daughter’s food intake. My heart breaks for them.

This is just so tragic and devastating for the families.

Such a horrible thing to happen. Looking at the packets, I probably would have made the same mistake too

Oh my this poor family. As soon as I saw the packet my heart sunk, I knew these were peanut butter flavoured.

I can see how she made ths mistake. Her friend must feel awful too.

How absolutely devastating for the family! Food allergies are so chronic – every care should be taken to check ingredients – at 15 y/o I would have thought she would have done this …. so sad. I too have a chronic food allergy and I check every single ingredient on every single thing I buy because sometimes it is not always obvious …..

This is heartbreaking but not an issue with packaging. She made a mistake and it unfortunately ended her life. If I had a child with an allergy as severe as this was I would be making them read the ingredient list instead if relying on the colour of the packet.

I’m sorry for this Mums loss… That would be devastating.
I don’t feel like this is an issue with misleading packaging though. While the colouring is the same, the packet does clearly show the peanut butter cups on the front and being 15 years old, I would expect she could identify and understand not to eat peanut products. Not to mention to always have an epi pen with her.
Maybe the daughter had a development disability and couldn’t read, but otherwise I fail to understand how she was not taught to check and read given the severity of nut allergies.

Very sad. But goes to show that when it comes to serious allergies you can’t ever be complacent. You never know even with ‘safe’ products if they have made a formula change or in this case made a peanut addition.