An excellent post on Alex's Allergy Insight blog about the importance of language and how dangerous it is for terms around allergy to be poorly be defined. What does 'vegan', let alone '100% vegan, mean for someone who is allergic to cow's milk or eggs? What is really referred …
Food/Health Policy
Flour to the People – Join the crowdfund
My old friend Andrew Whitley (founder of the Village Bakery way back) is crowdfunding for his Flour to the People initiative - a brilliant project to connect people through flour and bread which has just won the Food Innovation category of the BBC Radio 4 Food & Farming …
Have your say on ‘may contain’ labelling
Does 'may contain' labelling affect you either because you are allergic yourself or because you buy food for someone who is? If so you will know how unsatisfactory the situation is and will rejoice that the Food Standards Agency are at last hoping to tackle it. But before wading …
Call on the government to buy from British farms
Sustain, the umbrella group which represents organisations working for better systems of food and farming, are calling on the government to buy British for schools, hospitals, prisons and the armed forces. In the wake of last summer's National Food Strategy Defra are due to issue …
The Pfizer booster jab is safe for those with anaphylaxis
The BSACI, the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have all confirmed that the Pfizer and the Moderna booster vaccines is safe even if: you have any type of FOOD allergy (including anaphylaxis) you have had anaphylaxis to WASP or BEE stings you have an identified …