As those of you who get the FoodsMatter newsletter, or who regularly frequent the information sites, Foodsmatter.com and Coeliacsmatter.com, will know, every couple of weeks we upload between 10 and 20 reports of new research studies on allergy/intolerance and on the many other …
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Some ‘freefrom’ food award statistics – and ‘freefrom’ skincare awards news!
I am not very good on statistics (something to do with me not being very good at maths?....) and spend far less time than I should on checking which of you read what on our sites. But yesterday Cressida emailed me some 'comparative data' for entries into last year's and this …
Are cookbooks done for?….
A pre-Christmas survey of recipe reading habits shows an alarming move to abandon traditional cookery books in favour of..... laptops! Admittedly, the survey was carried out by a PC manufacturer, Lenovo, so they would say that, wouldn't they? But I fear that there may be more …
New codex standard for gluten-free food – and the dreaded ‘may contain’…
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 …
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 …