Chefs may have bemoaned the introduction of the EU Food Information for Consumers (FIC) rules requiring all eateries to know about the allergens in their foods; for food allergics, coeliacs and anyone on a restricted diet, this was only the most recent of a whole series measures …
Food/Health Policy
The vital importance of good information when living with allergy
The conviction this week of Indian takeaway owner, Mohammed Zaman, for Paul Wilson's shocking and totally needless death in January 2014 has once again brought anaphylaxis onto the front pages. As I am sure you will all have read, Paul Wilson, who was peanut allergic, died …
Bespoke socks………..
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Those socks do say L for Left foot and R for Right foot.... and yes, they are quite different! How cool is that?..... And not only cool, but sooooooo comfortable. Now I must admit that I am currently susceptible to a good sock as I have …
Sugar success
George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …
Up for signing a few petitions?…..
With the advent of the internet, signing petitions has become a whole new way of life! But although not all of those that get launched are successful, there is no doubt that many are – and that it is a very cheap and relatively painless way of gathering support for causes that …