Last month the Anaphylaxis Campaign hosted a fascinating webinar with Carole Bingley from Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) and Hazel Gowland of Allergy Action. They looked at both plant-based and novel proteins and the risk that they might pose for the allergic …
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The dairy wars
An excellent recent post on Alex Gazzola's AllergyInsight blog covers several subjects (including a recent Anaphylaxis Campaign webinar on novel proteins on which more anon) but homes in on the current battle between the vegan and dairy lobbies, both claiming the moral high grand …
In memory of Pat Schooling
It is with great sadness that I have to report the death on January 20th of Pat Schooling, the Director and moving spirit behind Action Against Allergy. She was 93. AAA, founded by Amelia Nathan Hill in 1978, was the first charity to be set up to support those with …
FSA – on the allergy case
You might well have thought that COVID concerns had taken over all branches of government activity – but not so. The Foods Standards Agency, while noting the issues, has refused to be distracted from its Food Hypersensitivity work. What is also good to realise – although I …
Homeopathy – a second string to our vaccination bow?
Cuba has always had a very individualistic– and on the whole very successful – approach to public and population health. The hard line socialist nature of their politics, especially in early days after the revolution, resulted in very high levels of education and medical care – …