The Food and Drink Innovation Network are usually pretty topical with their seminars but they excelled themselves this week. On Tuesday, not only did they have a regulatory lawyer explaining exactly what the High Court action which launched this morning could mean, but we had the …
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‘The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’
Or, to rephrase Oscar Wilde, 'all publicity is good publicity'. But is it? That was what was bothering Tom Treverton as he was putting together the programme for his trade conference at this year's Allergy + FreeFrom show. And it was bothering him particularly in the context of …
The rise and fall of sliced bread – and the evils of food additives
Two of John Scott's research reports last week, although not directly related, caught my eye. The first was an article in the Daily Mail quoting a recent Mintel report about sliced bread and its decline in popularity – well, relative decline at least. Eighty per cent of the UK …
Google’s Loon project – and further musings on electromagnetic sensitivity
One of the more Star Wars-y projects gathering pace in 2016 must be the Google Loon project – an attempt to encircle the southern hemisphere with a ring of high flying balloons. Using 4G, the balloons will beam internet access down to those living in remote regions below who …
Food Matters Live – an exciting week!
As you may be aware we spent most of last week down in Docklands at the Food Matters Live event – and quite an event it was! Well, I say that but in fact, that is just hearsay as we were so busy that, for the second year running, I did not manage to get to …