Since I have a memory which can rarely reach back beyond last weekend, attempting a 'round up' of what happened last year is my worst nightmare... So I am delighted that Alex G. at Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, has just done it all for me!! A little biased towards …
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Campus Feast 2013 – a feast of food start-ups
A couple of days ago I found myself heading for Silicon Roundabout, London's answer to Silicon Valley, at the invitation of no less a person than Google!! The invitation was to visit Campus Feast but I must admit that I went because I thought I was going to get to see the famed …
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 …
Blog hiccups
Dear Blog Visitors - As you may have noticed we are having a few 'issues' with the blog right now..... We have currently lost all of our images – yes, including the garden and the cats! However, they are, we understand, floating around in cyberspace. It is just a question of …
Beware manufacturer ‘freefrom’ lists
Any of you who follow Alexa's YesNoBananas blog will know that the her family is very excited as three year-old Sydney who has a list of life-threatening allergies and intolerances as long as your arm (including, originally, egg, wheat, nuts, sesame, chickpeas, green peas and …


