According to recent research from the Food Standards Agency – the legislation has helped, but not spectacularly. The agency used interviews and food diaries from food allergic and intolerant people across the UK, both before and a year after the legislation came into force, to …
Food/Health Policy
So what is all this about histamine intolerance?
Looking back over the FoodsMatter site statistics for the first months of this year I note that on average there were 90-100,000 'unique' visitors per month to the Allergy and Intolerance section of the site, 30-35,000 of whom (approximately 30%) visited the histamine pages. And …
Italian attitudes to ‘freefrom’
I recently received an email from Italy, from Caroline Hamilton, an Australian freelance journalist who lives and works in Italy – and we then had the following exchange. It would be very interesting to know whether any of you agree with our reading of the situation in Italy – …
What do you know about ultra sound scans?….
Well, not a lot, to be honest. Like most people I have never really thought about them, despite their very wide use for diagnostic purposes in adults and in babies in the womb. But Jim West believes that we are very unwise to believe that just because ultrasound is so widely …
Prescription restriction – are the savings real?
Outrage has had a field day over the last ten days – whether it is coeliacs outraged that Simon Stevens wants to deprive them of their prescription foods or non-coeliacs who are outraged that coeliacs should get 'free' food – which of course is not free anyhow, unless you get …