12-Year-Old Girl’s Milkshake Death Exposes How Even ‘Safe’ Foods can be Dangerous

A 12-year-old’s death from a Twix milkshake has highlighted an insidious way even so-called “safe foods” can prove deadly to people with severe nut allergies.

The victim, Mia Shay St Hilaire, had reportedly ordered the sweet beverage at the Pop Inn in London while visiting with her aunt and sister.

While the shake didn’t have any tree nuts — the source of her life-threatening allergy — she subsequently “developed rapidly progressing anaphylaxis” and ended up collapsing at her aunt’s home. Despite being rushed to the hospital, the youngster tragically passed away shortly after arriving, the coroner’s office said.

How did this supposedly benign beverage cost St Hilaire her life? According to CCTV reports, the restaurant’s owner Baris Yucel had used the same blender to whip up a hazelnut-harboring Kinder Bueno milkshake and didn’t wash it before prepping the preteen’s order — an issue known as allergen cross-contact.

“No family should ever have to lose a child in these circumstances,” the girl’s parents said in a statement, adding that they wanted to use their daughter’s tragedy to help “save lives in the future.” (Read more from “12-Year-Old Girl’s Milkshake Death Exposes How Even ‘Safe’ Foods can be Dangerous” HERE)