Have you heard of Allergy Adventures? If not, you most certainly should have.... In fact, any of you who have been to any of the Allergy Shows around the country, will have probably have seen Hailey running her extremely active and bouncy Allergy Adventures play areas within the …
Food/Health Policy
‘Gluten free’ versus ‘freefrom gluten’
Worrying about precise definitions is not something that comes naturally to me – I am more of a broad brush sort of person. So many are the arguments that I have with Alex, the acme of precision in definitions terms – and many are the rude names that I have called him when, yet …
Using plants to teach about allergy
I have talked before about how the amazing Nigel Clarke is aiming to turn beautiful Guernsey into a low allergen island, basing his work on Tom Ogren's OPALS Allergy plant scale. (For those of you who have not heard of Tom, he is the creator of the OPALS scale, a …
The rise and fall of sliced bread – and the evils of food additives
Two of John Scott's research reports last week, although not directly related, caught my eye. The first was an article in the Daily Mail quoting a recent Mintel report about sliced bread and its decline in popularity – well, relative decline at least. Eighty per cent of the UK …
Do not believe everything you read….
I am sure this is an unnecessary warning as I am sure that you are all far too canny to be taken in but, just in case someone was not paying attention..... During the Christmas Eve clear out of my desk (and how satisfactory was that!!!) I unearthed a print out I had been sent …