The 2022 FreeFrom Skincare Awards, now in its eleventh super successful year, opens today - seeking out the ultimate in skincare products which are ‘free from’ some of the many ingredients which consumers need or want to avoid. As always, our good friend Alex Gazzola will be …
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Behind the scenes at the FF Christmas Awards presentation
The FreeFrom Christmas Awards presentation - not the image that you would expect of us all whooping it up in a room together but at least we were live this time. And you were pretty 'live' too! You may have been sitting at home on your sofas, but you were taking full advantage of …
An earth friendly alternative to polystyrene
One of the most frustrating aspects of each year's judging for the Free From Food Awards is the amount of polystyrene packaging that comes our way. Mainly to keep frozen and chilled food frozen/chilled, but also often just as fillers. If ever there was a material which was …
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in times of COVID
No matter how you cut it, judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards is not something you can do over Zoom. While sending out parcels of five or even ten products to judges might be feasible, sending out parcels of 50 certainly would not be. Even if the numbers were manageable, we …
Sad, sad news
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 …