On January 1st the new regulations governing the use of the term 'gluten-free' came into force. As of Jan.1, to be able to call itself 'gluten-free' a food must contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten, to call itself 'very low gluten' it must contain less than …
Gluten-free
Should gluten-free food be available on prescription?
Oxfordshire PCT are currently creating serious waves within the coeliac community with a consultation document on withdrawing funding for prescription gluten-free food for coeliacs. Their reasoning runs as follows: • There is now a wide range of gluten-free foods in …
Bob Holness – broadcaster, coeliac – and coconut lover!
Fans of Blockbusters, Call my Bluff and Anything Goes (including two of my now 30-year-old nephews who were bowled over by the fact that I actually knew Bob) will all be mourning the sad loss of Bob Holness, who died yesterday. So do all us who worked on the hugely successful …
Tweeters, bloggers – and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Twitter, it seems, has made it through the gates of the Old Bailey. According to a report on Today this morning, the live reports of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial that you were watching on your TV screens were delivered to the reporter via tweets from journalists inside the …
Becoming Truly Gluten Free
Despite a dose of Jury service and three months hard study, Micki Rose continues an endless flow on posts on the TrulyGlutenFree site. Her TGF diet must be working for her to be able to keep up such a work rate! Alerts about prawns (did you know that they can be fed on soya …