I went to an extremely interesting FABResearch conference last week – Sugar, Fat & Addiction: New Approaches to the Public Health Crisis; I will be reporting on the medical aspects in next week's newsletter. However, two of the presentations focused not on the medical aspects …
Food/Health Policy
Roundup and autism – is there a link?
Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME and …
‘Now EU wants allergy alerts on all menus’ – well, no…
Prue Leith hit the headlines in the Daily Mail this week when she condemned the new allergen regulations for food service coming into force in December as a 'bureaucratic nightmare' that will 'kill innovation and experimentation in the kitchen and cooking what is available daily …
Causing gluten confusion…
Many people are still having a problem getting their heads around the 'new' regulations that came into force in January 2013 : that to be called 'gluten-free' a food must have under 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten and to be called 'very low gluten' it must have under 100 …
‘World Bank accused of destroying traditional farming to support corporate land grabs’
Received this morning: Today, the Oakland Institute and /The Rules, along with other NGOs, farmer and consumer organizations from around the world launch a campaign, Our Land Our Business, to hold the World Bank accountable for its role in the rampant theft of land and …