Very good news - the Food Standards Agency have cleared their desks and are tackling the horribly unsatisfactory mess that is Precautionary Allergen Labelling, better known as 'may contain' warnings. PALs have been the bugbear not only of the allergic consumer but of the …
Food/Health Policy
Eating to Extinction
Journalist and broadcaster Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is a serious hunk of a book to give as a Christmas present - but reassure your recipients, it is an absolutely fascinating read. Scary but hugely uplifting. Potentially catastrophic as global warming may be, many …
Prescription anti depressants – do they cure or can they kill?
Pandemic fuelled stress has resulted in a worrying rise not only in mental health issues but in prescriptions for the antidepressants that are meant to help us cope with those issues. But do they help? And what are the side effects of taking them? Questions that we surely need to …
Making the law work for you
You should never assume that just because 'the law' appears to prevent or forbid you from doing something (or indeed allow someone else to do something that you do not like) that you have no redress. Things are not always how they seem. While it is in the interest of local …
The new Anaphylaxis Registry
Data, data, data.... Data, we are told, is king. Without data you cannot understand what has happened in any given circumstance, you cannot improve your response to it and you cannot plan to prevent it happening again. But as far as anaphylactic reactions are concerned, data has, …