Well, might be interested in this, if you're interested in fact versus hype.

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/food.htm

"Nut allergies," and peanuts are not nuts, BTW, are _not_ to the extracted
oils, but to the proteins. As long as you don't buy the cold pressed oil at
your health food shop, but a solvent-extracted oil, should be no problem.

Oh yes, they're not at all common, either.

http://www.asthmacasestudies.org/pat...oodallergy.stm

In school they reduced the 2% of food-allergic adults, 8% of children to
..1% of people likely to have an anaphylactic reaction. The figures above
are from people who make their money by administering allergy tests and
medications, so they _might_ be a touch high.

Sounds about equal to the number of "nuts" who tried to use their rotary
lawnmowers as hedge trimmers....

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John wrote:

I'm surprised that someone hasn't approached the CPSC about banning
peanut oil, and ALL peanut products, as it is putting all those folks
with peanut alleries at risk.

I don't know about 'banning' those products, but I do see warning labels
all over the place... MAY contain peanuts, or nut products.