A few days ago we got an email from the mother of super-allergic little boy. She was furious and frustrated by the fact that every delicious looking freefrom food that she found on the FFFood Awards website was effectively barred to her because, although it was being sold as …
Food/Health Policy
Update on organic versus GM
As I have started to emerge from the awards frenzy of the last few months I have been catching up what has been happening in the rest of the world... And I thought that these three bits of news deserved a wider airing. Russia not interested in genetically modified …
Unforeseen consequences of electromagnetic fields
The insurance industry is, reasonsbly enough, a cautious one. And, because their very survival depends on it, they are experts in assessing risk. I quote: Emerging risks are particularly relevant for the insurance industry because many of its actions are still based on …
Alpro – ongoing…
The Alpro saga may have been pushed off the front pages by the Addenbrookes peanut allergy research but it has most definitely not gone away. (For anyone who does not know what I am talking about see my blog from on January 21st or the AlproSOS Facebook page.) Alpro did …
Alpro in the dock over defensive labelling
What an absurd situation! Alpro, makers of one of the very few products that nut and dairy allergic children can eat safely, are actively preventing that very group from buying them! How? By slapping defensive 'may contain traces of nuts' warnings on all of their products. For …