Alpro's plans to combine their soya and nut milk-making facilities on one site thereby, as they see it, necessitating nut warnings on their soya milk, have caused understandable uproar within the nut-allergic community. All too of many of the rapidly growing number of …
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Allergen legislation in pubs will not have an easy ride
A short piece in the Publican's Morning Advertiser headlined 'Allergen law 'fatal for pub specials board' has put its finger on one of the trickiest challenges faced by the new allergen regulations for 'food sold loose and in food service'. Waitrose Good Food Guide editor, …
Spain taxes sunlight….
Do you sometimes wonder if you have read something aright – as I did when I read, in Josh de Sol's damning critique of the smart meter 'scam' in the US :– With 6 of the 7 world’s richest companies in the oil/gas/energy industry, should it be surprising that corporate …
Sugar cement!
Don't you just love it when someone comes up with a discovery like this! It seems that cement made with waste sugar ash is stronger, less crumbly and can withstand high pressure than the ordinary stuff! Making cement from sugar also saves energy and reduces the pollution caused …
‘Sweetening milk with non-nutritive sweeteners without declaring them on the label will make it easier for consumers to identify its overall nutritional value’…
What?....... Well, that, if you can get your head around it, is what the US International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the FDA to let them do. It is, apparently, all part of trying to combat obesity by improving …