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1048 n engl j med 348;11 www.nejm.org march 13, 2003 exposed (e.g., natural or roasted peanuts rather than cooked or fried peanuts). 13 Küstner was allergic only to cooked fish, not to raw fish. Another report in this issue of the Journal, by Lack et al., 14 underscores the usefulness of the epidemiologic approach. They identified exposure to emollients containing peanut oil as a significant risk factor for allergy in almost 50 children. Thus, simple avoidance of such exposure might obviate the need for more sophisticated and expensive therapeutic intervention.