The three weeks that followed our celebration of James' life on November 2nd (see my earlier blog) have been extremely hectic as I had to cram all of the work that I would normally have done over four to six weeks for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards presentation into 15 days. So …
Food
Further lessons for allergy sufferers
Huge media coverage was given to the inquest into the death of Natasha Ednan Laperouse as a result of eating sesame seeds in an unlabelled Pret baguette. Yet the inquest into the death of Megan Lee in 2017 from eating a takeaway Indian which contained peanuts appears to have …
Allergies on the Food Programme
Log into the excellent Food Programme on Radio 4 on Sunday at 12.30 (and then again on Monday at 3.30pm) as they too are looking at allergies. 'Bee Wilson asks why the number of people suffering from food allergies is on the rise, and how the death of a teenager from a sesame …
Pret fallout
While the ongoing focus on food allergy resulting from the inquest into Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's death has been good, other aspects of the tragedy have been somewhat overshadowed by the condemnation showered, rightly, on Pret a Manger for failing to ingredients-label that fatal …
Allergy Insight updates
While I have been effectively 'off air' there has been an interesting flow of posts from Alex on his Allergy Insight blog. So for those of you who may have missed them: 19th September - Allergens – easy to ask covering the FSA, Allergy UK and Anaphylaxis Campaign's new …