We get, I am glad to say, very few complaints about the FreeFrom Food Awards - but the one comment that crops up every year is – 'Well it's always the same - the supermarkets get all the gold medals and the small people don't get anything....' We know that this isn't true but …
Peanut allergy
FreeFrom Food Awards 2018 – the winners – the party – the blouse!!
And here is the winner!!! Tracy Kane of Community Foods (who represent Orgran in the UK) with Marble Mo who they won for their Vegan Easy Egg. And here is the Easy Egg, with its new friend, Marble Mo who, I hope you note, for the ceremony wore a scarf to blend with the Easy …
Can skin prick tests cause food allergy?
Wet wipes have been accused of a lot of things – creating 'fatbergs' in sewage systems, adding to the microplastic threat to marine life, preventing the breakdown of solid matter in landfill sites and causing skin rashes both on the bottoms of the babies on which they are used …
How peanut flour became a drug….
This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …
Peter Rabbit allergy scandale
You would think that, if you were spending $35 million on a film, you might also think to spend a few hundred dollars checking out the sensitivities around one of the more gripping scenes that you were shooting? But obviously not. Well, not if you are Sony Pictures. Instead …