Huge media coverage was given to the inquest into the death of Natasha Ednan Laperouse as a result of eating sesame seeds in an unlabelled Pret baguette. Yet the inquest into the death of Megan Lee in 2017 from eating a takeaway Indian which contained peanuts appears to have …
Do the guidelines protect us – or do they pose a serious risk to human health?
The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection or ICNIRP purports to be 'an independent organization, providing scientific advice and guidance on the health and environmental effects of non-ionizing radiation (NIR) to protect people and the environment from …
Allergies on the Food Programme
Log into the excellent Food Programme on Radio 4 on Sunday at 12.30 (and then again on Monday at 3.30pm) as they too are looking at allergies. 'Bee Wilson asks why the number of people suffering from food allergies is on the rise, and how the death of a teenager from a sesame …
Alikats wild camping
Way back in 2011 I first posted about my nephew Alastair and his wife Kathryn (the Al and Kat of Alikats...) who had set off to Morzine in the French Alps to run skiing chalets. For the first year or two they ran chalets for other people, to learn their trade. But by 2013 they …
Pret fallout
While the ongoing focus on food allergy resulting from the inquest into Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's death has been good, other aspects of the tragedy have been somewhat overshadowed by the condemnation showered, rightly, on Pret a Manger for failing to ingredients-label that fatal …