Thanks to an article by the wonderful Joanna Blythman in a recent Guardian, I have just discovered about this brilliant initiative. Built up over the last five years by Somerset farmer, Neil Darwent, Free Range Dairy has created a set of standards and a logo, Pasture Promise, …
Food/Health Policy
FreeFrom Food Awards judging – Week One….
This is what we like to see - a room full of judges fully focused on the job in hand! And it is some job this year, with well over 500 products to judge over the two week period. I am also delighted to be able to report that the standard of the entries so far has been really …
‘Oh no! Not FDIN Jeffrey?……’
'But he was such a lovely man.......' Yes, I do mean Food and Drink Innovation Network Jeffrey Hyman – a lovely, lovely man. But being loved by everyone could not, sadly, protect him from a massive stroke last Tuesday night, which he did not survive. I can't now …
When to start eating peanuts…..
Early in 2015 the peanut allergy world was stunned by the results of the LEAP study conducted by Professor Gideon Lack and his team at King's College in London. Over 600 four to 11 month old babies at high risk of peanut allergy (coming from families with a high incidence of …
The Dietary and Nutritional Approach to ADHD and Hyperactivity
Anyone who has been around the allergy word for a few years will know of the Hyperactive Childrens' Support Group (HACSG), the organisation founded by Sally Bunday and her mother over 30 years ago. In an attempt to manage her own son's hyperactivity Sally had investigated the …