No – I have not had a Damascene conversion and I do NOT think that the new allergen regulations are wonderful – but I do think that the Food Standards Agency is trying hard, in an extremely difficult area, to do the best they can for allergic consumers – even though that best may …
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‘FreeFrom’ moving forward
Cressida and I spent two very enjoyable days last week in Daventry at the Food and Drink Innovation Network's two-day 'freefrom summit' which I was chairing. FDIN freefrom seminars are a well established tradition by now – I think this was the fifth – but this was the first time …
The new allergen regulations – a wasted opportunity
What a wasted opportunity! The Face-o-twittersphere has been erupting during the last week over the new regulations on allergen labelling – and with reason. (The regulations are not due to come into force until December 2014 but the FSA has just issued some guidelines which is …
In memoriam – Dr Harry Morrow Brown
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, Dr Harry Morrow Brown finally lost his battle to keep his heart ticking last week. He was 96. I first met Harry and Freda nearly 30 years ago at the Oxford Food Symposium. How come? Well, Freda was interested in food so they thought they would …
Beware manufacturer ‘freefrom’ lists
Any of you who follow Alexa's YesNoBananas blog will know that the her family is very excited as three year-old Sydney who has a list of life-threatening allergies and intolerances as long as your arm (including, originally, egg, wheat, nuts, sesame, chickpeas, green peas and …