Yet another random press release arrived in my in box yesterday (I do get a lot of them...) This one was from Direct Pet Line Insurance about pet obesity! Apparently 43% of vets in the UK treated dogs or cats for obesity last year! And 67% of those vets had seen an increase in …
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Team Work for the FreeFrom Food Awards
We are just about embark on the last week of preparations for the judging for the 2015 FreeFrom Food Awards. This may not sound like a lot but as anyone who has actually been a judge will know, it is a mammoth undertaking which needs to be planned with military precision. This …
Obscure intolerances poorly served – and don’t we know it!
From a salicylate-intolerant site visitor who has been batted backwards and forwards between allergy and dermatology departments, neither of whom will give her the time of day because they have tested her for the full gamut of IgE mediated 'proper' allergies – and she does not …
2014 round up
I am afraid that round ups of the last year's events are not my forte so, thank goodness, Alex has come to the rescue again! If you want to know what happened in 2014 in the coeliac, allergy and intolerance world, check in to Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink for his …
3D-printed allergen-free food?
A few weeks ago John Scott sent me a link to an article on Your is.com – 3D printing to the rescue of gastronomy for frail seniors, wondering whether this could also have some interesting implications for allergy catering. Like many of you, I suspect, I have heard of 3D …