The Federal Aviation Administration has released its long-awaited proposed rule to update the emergency medical kits (EMKs) on U.S. commercial flights. Food allergy advocates had hoped this would be a turning point for requiring modern epinephrine devices to be available in airline medical kits.
Instead, the proposed rule provides airlines with greater flexibility on what’s in the EMK and waters down existing language on which specific medicines a kit is required to contain, including epinephrine.
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