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Pret A Manger has committed a "complete dereliction of duty", says the father of a girl who died after suffering an allergic reaction to one of their baguettes.

Nadim Ednan-Laperouse told Sky News: "Any large company that prides itself on being a leader in their field as Pret does should go and examine that law as they know it and do far more than that.

"Doing the bare minimum is not enough and the excuse to hide behind the law is shocking beyond belief - I would call that complete dereliction of duty."

The parents of Natasha, 15, who died in 2016 after suffering an allergic reaction to sesame which was not declared on the label of an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette, are calling for changes in food labelling laws.

Tanya Ednan-Laperouse told Sky News of the harrowing moment she had to say goodbye to her dying daughter hundreds of miles away on the phone.

"To get a call to say your child is dying and another call to say your child is about to die and you have to say goodbye right now, putting the phone by her head - no one knows how they can even get through something like that," she said.

"As a parent you just don't."

Mr Ednan-Laperouse added: "To see her life just drain away in a very short moment of time is something that was so, so easily avoidable."

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He called it a "completely and thoroughly needless death of a beautiful child".

Natasha "was cheeky, she had a naughty sense of humour, and she was always just a delight to be around," Mrs Ednan-Laperouse said.

Last week, a coroner said Pret A Manger had failed to address the seriousness of food allergies, in spite of the scale of the business.

Natasha's mother said there was an "obvious lack of understanding" when it came to recognising "the magnitude of what it does mean for somebody to have an allergy".

"For us the justice if any justice can come from this, it's to change things," she said.

Natasha's father called on politicians to "take heed and really do something about it".

"Every hour that goes past when there are not food labels with the allergens on the sandwich, someone else is at risk of dying or even having life-changing injuries as the result of a terrible anaphylactic reaction.

"It's unthinkable that right now all sandwich shops haven't shut momentarily to get on and do something and do right by the public."

Concluding at an inquest, Dr Sean Cummings found Pret relied on stickers, which urged customers to ask staff or check the Pret website, to provide information on allergens in their products.

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Natasha checked the packet before eating the baguette, but Pret had not declared the fact it contained sesame seeds on the packet.

Natasha, from Fulham, southwest London, died of anaphylaxis after eating the baguette.

The girl's father said Natasha was "always aware of her allergies" which she had "grown up with".

"She was spotlessly aware of looking at ingredients," Mr Ednan-Laperouse added.

In a statement following the coroner's conclusion, the chief executive of Pret A Manger, Clive Schlee, said the company was "deeply sorry".

"We cannot begin to comprehend the pain the family have felt and the grief they will continue to feel," he said.

"We've listened to everything the coroner and Natasha's family have said and we will learn from it."