'So much excitement here at Foods Matter! As the first day of judging dawns, the bellows are blowing for the furnaces behind the ovens, the maids and under-servants are scurrying about, readying the formal judging rooms, and the products are beaming under their cling-filmed …
Dairy-free
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 …
FreeFrom chippie in Whitby
I had literally just pressed the 'publish' button on the last post when Alex forwarded me a press release about the Quayside fish and chip shop in Whitby. While a number of fish and chip shops now offer a 'gluten-free Friday' (or Monday, or Tuesday) the Quayside has gone the …
FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on a roll
The advantage of being a 'small compact team' is that you can be ultra flexible and move forward quickly on an idea if it seems like a good one; the disadvantage is that you are all too likely to leap into something without really having looked as carefully as maybe you …
Horror stories….
I have just been working my way through John Scott's weekly compendiums of research reports for November and December (sadly, we are nowhere near as prompt at getting them onto the sites as he is at sending them to us) and I came across two really horrendous stories that he had …