Host: Do restaurants understand and avoid cross contact? Bob Gravani: Well there are about 12 million American that have food allergies today and certainly the restaurant industry, the food service industry in general, is becoming more and more aware of the need to prevent cross contact between food allergens and non food allergen containing foods and it is important that severely food allergic people can feel assured when they go to a restaurant to the knowledge and depth of training that restaurants have to avoid cross contact between foods.