What indeed? Well, if you listen to DamNonsense.org.uk or the Hampstead Village Voice, idiocy, chicanery, the defiguring of Hampstead Heath, corruption, 'heinous wrongdoing' – indeed the whole bag of evil tricks! But who is doing what to whom? Well, the City of London, who …
Big Business
All go – at the Allergy Show!!
It was certainly all go this weekend at the Allergy + FreeFrom Show in Olympia's Grand Hall. We haven't yet had all the stats but the perception of all of the exhibitors that I spoke to was that it was definitely bigger and better than last year (already a record year). That …
Gluten recalls
There was been a huge outcry on social media and elsewhere recently over gluten contamination that occurred in the Genius factory. It triggered a whole slew of products recalls not only of Genius products but of supermarket freefrom lines manufactured by Genius. I missed most of …
Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?
In managing food allergy there are two major hazards: The failure to recognise a food allergen that has been included in a dish as an ingredient and The accidental contamination of an otherwise allergen-free food with an allergen. But while the failure to recognize …
In (reluctant) admiration of Amazon
Like many people, I suspect, I have a rather vague and amorphous dislike of Amazon. It is too big, it doesn't pay its taxes, its website looks horrible, it is pushing small bookshops out of business... But I do admit that when I can't find what I am looking for somewhere else, …