No – I have not had a Damascene conversion and I do NOT think that the new allergen regulations are wonderful – but I do think that the Food Standards Agency is trying hard, in an extremely difficult area, to do the best they can for allergic consumers – even though that best may …
Allergies
YesNoBananas and British Airways…..
Alexa at YesNoBananas has been seriously on the rampage over the last few weeks - but who can blame her? The new food labelling regulations about which I blogged a couple of days ago and she has blogged a number of times (most recently as a letter to the FSA) are enough, as my …
The new allergen regulations – a wasted opportunity
What a wasted opportunity! The Face-o-twittersphere has been erupting during the last week over the new regulations on allergen labelling – and with reason. (The regulations are not due to come into force until December 2014 but the FSA has just issued some guidelines which is …
In memoriam – Dr Harry Morrow Brown
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, Dr Harry Morrow Brown finally lost his battle to keep his heart ticking last week. He was 96. I first met Harry and Freda nearly 30 years ago at the Oxford Food Symposium. How come? Well, Freda was interested in food so they thought they would …
Marmosets are gluten sensitive!
Poor little things! So, they too are gluten sensitive.... In fact, the irresistible research report that Alex sent me some weeks ago, reports that Common Marmosets (like the guy below who lives at the Landgoed Hoenderdaell wildlife park in the Netherlands) are gluten …