Two healthy persons were hospitalized after eating a tuna sandwich in Aroma coffeeshop in Tel Aviv, Sderot Ben Gurion. I live on canned tuna and Aroma is my client, so I am interested. It appears that about 0.5% of the population is allergic to fish, some to the point reacting to a kiss by a person who has eaten fish. The Aroma incident did not happen because the allergen was not on the label, most clearly it was a tuna sandwich. Now the health authorities are developing a frenzied media activity to show that they care and protect. They unchained a dozen inspectors to dismantle the place and find something criminal (apparently the temperature in one of the refrigerators was above the regulation. It happens all the time. It is late summer here, very hot.).
These allergies are somewhat of a mystery. People who had experience with some molecule in infancy acquire tolerance to it as adult. Children are so overprotected that they grow up with weaknesses. Children should have a (moderately) dangerous childhood.
P.S.: Now the media is talking of food poisoning. That is more fathomable than allergy to tuna.
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