Daughter of daughter who died of allergy on airplane blame Ready to eat | Society

A father whose 15-year-old daughter with severe food allergies died after eating a baguette from Ready to eat said in an investigation that the food chain was responsible for her inability to list allergens.

Natasha Ednan-Laperouse was traveling with her father and a school friend from London to Nice when she collapsed during a British Airways flight on July 17, 2016.

After the treatments on the plane and at the airport failed to revive her, she was taken to a French hospital, but with no prospect of recovery, her support for life was stopped later in the day .

An investigation into his death in the West London Coroner's Court found that shortly before boarding the plane, after carefully checking the label and then asking his father to check, the teenager ate a wand. artichokes, olives and tapenade purchased at Maneuver Store at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport.

In his statement, read in court by the family's lawyer, Jeremy Hyam QC, Natasha's father, Nadim Ednan-Laperouse, said that at one point, while being neat, his daughter had vomited the red filling sandwich. While she was at the hospital, he stated that he "instinctively knew that Natasha was dying because of something contained in the Pret rod".

He said that he had called his own mother from the hospital and asked him to buy the same wand at his local Fulham shop, which she did. She also found no allergens in the ingredients or warnings displayed in the store. It was only when she viewed a plastic wrapped flyer in the store that she saw the product contain sesame seeds in the batter, he said.

Ednan-Laperouse said, "When my mother called me and told me that the baguette contained sesame, I was surprised … I was completely horrified. It was their fault … I was stunned that a big food company like Pret could fool a sandwich and that it could kill my daughter.

Ednan-Laperouse's statement and oral testimony later revealed that Natasha had started to itch three minutes after eating the sandwich. She took liquid piriton and did it when the same symptom came on the flight, the investigation was heard.

Her father said that she went to the bathroom. "She said, 'Dad, I do not feel good' … she raised her top and showed me red marks … like lacerations," said Ednan-Laperouse.

His father administered two EpiPens but his health did not improve. Ednan Laperouse said, "She said, 'Dad, help me, I can not breathe.' He told her that he loved her but she lost consciousness and moss began to flow into her mouth. Oxygen was administered by mask and CPR.

Ednan-Laperouse said that when they reached Nice Airport, the defibrillator and the oxygen machine were not working properly. Natasha was taken to the hospital but Ednan-Laperouse was finally informed that she would not survive and had to call her family members who were "the worst of my life". He said: "All of them (the family members) were completely overwhelmed".

He was holding a phone in Natasha's ear so his mother and brother could say goodbye and "cut a long lock of Natasha's brown hair to keep them … With a lot of pain and suffering, I said to Natasha that we would always love him.

Her father said that because of her multiple severe food allergies, they had watched what she ate "like a hawk". Asked by Oliver Campbell, of Quebec, about Pret, he stated that it was possible, but that it was "unlikely" that he could have missed the warning signs of allergens in the store.

Ednan-Laperouse said the ingredients, but not the sesame seeds, were on the package. However, Campbell told the court that Pret never lists the ingredients on his packages.

A Pret spokesman told the observer, "We were deeply saddened to hear of Natasha's tragic death and our most sincere thoughts go to her family and friends. We take food allergies and how information about allergens is provided to our customers very seriously. We will continue to do everything we can to help the coroner's inquest.

The investigation is expected to last until Friday.