The wires have been, as you would expect, humming since the publication of the FreeFrom Food Awards shortlist on Wednesday. A few disappointments that judges had not found favourite products quite as irresistible as hoped but a great deal more joy as freefrom companies both new …
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Gluten-free food on prescription – again…
I realise that I am coming rather late to the most recent prescription charge furore – set off by the article in the BMJ's Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggesting that providing gluten-free food for coeliacs on prescription is bureaucratic, inefficient and outdated – see the …
Horses – labels – and freefrom…
A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
Bad medicine: food intolerance
A few days ago Alex Gazzola pointed me to an article in the current issue of the BMJ by Dr Des Spence, a GP in Glasgow, laying into both the 'allergy industry' and the food industry for promoting food intolerance as a way to make money. You can read the article here and comment …
Gluten-free product placement!
Now that's what we like to see – a decent bit of product placement... Christine of Christine's Puddings dropped off some of her entries for this week's FreeFrom Food Awards judging sessions this afternoon, having come hot foot from Southampton where she had been delivering …