There is absolutely nothing good about a teenage girl dying as a result of an allergic reaction. But the massive coverage resulting from the inquest into Natasha's death has at least brought the issue of severe allergies to the forefront of everyone's minds – and that is …
Food/Health Policy
Psychedelics – the next frontier in mental health?
Nearly two months ago the Guild of Health Writers held a fascinating workshop run by the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College in London. I apologise for the delay in reporting on it but I have only just discovered that I had not, as I had feared, recycled my …
Food Ethics Council looks to the future
The Food Ethics Council is 20 years old this year. And to celebrate the fact it held an interesting afternoon's workshop last week with, as its key speaker, the Professor of International Human Rights, Olivier de Schutter, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on …
Daily Mail warns of the dangers of wifi…
OK - so you are all used to me wittering on about the dangers of electromagnetic radiation, wifi, smart meters, mobile phones and baby alarms. But now the Daily Mail has weighed in with a long article by Geoffrey Lean quoting Professor Anthony Miller of Toronto University. The …
Bootleg liquor accounts for nearly quarter of all alcohol consumed globally….
And by bootleg, I mean alcohol which is made from, or at least contains, mosquito repellent, cough medicine, battery acid, mortuary formaldehyde and methanol among many other dubious, toxic and often lethal substances. How did I know about it? Well, I could just have found out by …