Yet more on labelling, I fear – but not this time on traceability or 'may contain' warnings, but on definitions. And you think gluten or nuts are complicated in terms of definitions and labelling? Just try milk.... So which misconception shall we get out of the way first? How …
Food/Health Policy
Traceability and ‘cumin-gate’
Issues of traceability loomed large a couple of weeks ago at the judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards. Whatever about manufacturing in a dedicated nut/dairy/gluten-free factory, does a 'freefrom' manufacture also need to know (and declare) the contamination risks that might …
Help get some really worthwhile research published
This is the garden of GREEN – Gardens for Research and Education. And, under guidance of Matt Adams (who ran the Good Gardeners' Association from 2000 to 2011) it has spent eight years tracking 23 minerals (calcium lead, selenium etc) in soil cultivated in different ways from …
The problem with nuts….
Well, to be honest, it is not nuts that are the problem, it is the confusion arising from the laudable efforts of regulators and manufacturers to improve allergen labelling for the benefit of allergic consumers. But, nuts being at the sharp end of the allergy experience, nut …
Christmas culture – from the panto to My Promised Land
OK – so when did you last go to a panto?..... So many decades ago in my case that it feels like millennia! Which is why, when one of my favourite neighbourhood theatres, the Park in Finsbury Park, flagged up Jack in the Beanstalk with rave reviews from everyone from Sir Ian …