Food Safety News: “After using the federal rule-making process to solicit a couple hundred pro and con comments on a proposed ban [scroll down the page to view the details] on peanuts on commercial carriers, the U.S. Department of Transportation had to admit it was all just a drill. DOT lacks the authority to impose such a ban. Such an action would violate a year 2000 provision of the appropriations act that funds DOT. That law prevents DOT from banning peanuts or requiring any peanut-free buffer zone on any airline.”