Wet wipes have been accused of a lot of things – creating 'fatbergs' in sewage systems, adding to the microplastic threat to marine life, preventing the breakdown of solid matter in landfill sites and causing skin rashes both on the bottoms of the babies on which they are used …
Allergies
Basking in the sun in Co Leitrim
I don't know how it is where you are, but here in London the rain continues to pour down making this the wettest and most parrot sickening Easter in living memory. So to cheer you up – although possibly it will just depress you yet further – here are a few sun-drenched pictures …
With the pollen season coming up – the dangers of pollen
Tom Ogren, as many of you will know, has been campaigning on the dangers of pollen for many years – see this short video we recorded last year about how pollen combines with pollution with a lethal outcome. For everyone's benefit, he has just done a roundup of recent research …
How peanut flour became a drug….
This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …
Peter Rabbit allergy scandale
You would think that, if you were spending $35 million on a film, you might also think to spend a few hundred dollars checking out the sensitivities around one of the more gripping scenes that you were shooting? But obviously not. Well, not if you are Sony Pictures. Instead …