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FreeFrom Awards

Sad, sad news

14/01/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Yesterday evening, Lisa Acton - co founder, with her husband John Burke, of the Irish FreeFrom Food Awards – finally lost a long and heroic battle with cancer. To my regret I had only met her a few times. A couple of years ago when John brought the whole family to a FreeFrom …

Category: FreeFrom AwardsTag: Emma Clark Conway of Irish FreeFrom Food Awards, Irish freefrom Food awards, John Burke founder of the Irish FreeFrom Food awards, lisa Acton co-founder of the Irish FreeFrom Food Awards

The latest addition….

21/11/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

Everyone knows about my earring collection – both gathered together over the years and donated  by friends from all over the world. It now adorns lampshades around my living room. But I am delighted to say that earrings are the gift that goes on giving and I have now moved …

Category: Art, FreeFrom AwardsTag: earrings, earrings on lampshades, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food Awards judges, FreeFrom Food Awards sponsors, Michelle's earring collection, The Pasta Jeweller

Gobsmacked – and very, very touched

30/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  19 Comments

Thanks to a temporary halt in my building works I am currently in sole possession of an eight bedroom, four storey house. So, since Cressida was coming here for an awards update, and my brother in law David had to come to London on business, we thought we could use my many floors …

Category: FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom FoodTag: Cressida Langlands Director FreeFromFood Awards, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom World

Rethinking the Children’s category

15/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Ever since we launched it in 2013 the Children's category in the FreeFrom Food Awards had been organised for us by nutritional therapist and special diet chef Christine Bailey who many of you will know well. Apart from having three children of her own on restricted diets …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Environmental Issues, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: #FreefromFoodAwards, availability of freefrom food for children, Christine Bailey, cost of children's freefrom food, FFFA children and teens category, FreefromFoodawards, labelling of children's food, sustainability of children's food

No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….

05/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: #allergyreactors, #chickpeasasanallergen, #EuropeanFoodSafetyAuthority, #freefromconsumer, #FreefromFoodAwards, #freefromindustry, #glutenfreeoats, #MayContainWarnings, #NoTop14, #peasasanallergen, EFSA, PAL

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