Some months ago Pat Schooling, the director of Action Against Allergy of which I am a trustee, asked me if I could go to a European patient support allergy meeting as she would not be able to make it. I said yes, to be helpful, but my heart sank at the prospect of a day spent …
Food/Health Policy
Water, water – but, alas, absolutely not everywhere…
Thanks to the scary results of a survey of 7–9-year olds by the National Hydration Council, the council has joined forces with the Childrens' Food Trust and Stefan Gates, star of CBBC’s Gastronauts and Incredible Edibles, to try to persuade children to drink more water. And much …
Horizon on allergies
I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …
Bravo Alpro! Nut and soya milks to be made on dedicated lines.
Excellent news this morning in a letter from Ann de Jaeger, Alpro's public relations head honcho. 'As part of a major investment programme in our facilities, we will arrange our current production lines to be dedicated to producing rice, soya and oat drinks or almond, hazelnut …
Foodcycle and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Very soon we will be announcing the 2015 Freefrom Food Awards (entry opens in mid September) and our new charity for 2014, FoodCycle. FoodCycle asked us to write a blog for their site about why we had chosen them as our charity for 2015 - and I have just realised that it should …