I was reminded last week by an excellent post on Ruth Holroyd's What Allergy? blog of the Pholcodine issue which, 25 years after it was first discussed, has still not been resolved in the UK. Pholcodine is a drug that is to be found in a wide range of cough medicines. …
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Quick shout out for milk free/vegan cheeses
We are in the middle of the 2023 FreeFrom Food Awards* judging season and Thursday was the day for dairy free/vegan cheese. I was not present at the judging so I have no idea what the judges thought of the entries. But I did find a whole stack of remains in my fridge after …
Disasters of over fishing
Back in 2021 I did a short post to alert readers to World Ocean Day and directed readers to a site run by Coty Perry detailing the horror show that is our overfished oceans. Over the last 18 months Coty has done a massive upgrade on his site - and renamed it anglers.com. (Image …
It’s the environment, stupid…..
In a recent BSACI on line symposium Professor Stephen Holgate called for urgent action to tackle the environmental causes of the global explosion in allergy cases: the loss of biodiversity, pollution, diet and urbanisation. This followed on from his keynote speech at the two day …
The perils of electro complacency
Very long term readers of this blog will remember that over ten years ago I went through a few years when I was quite seriously electro sensitive. In other words I reacted badly to electromagnetic radiation - the lifeblood of our phones, our computers and our on line …