Anyone who has had dealings with food sensitivity - be it an allergy, an intolerance or coeliac disease - will know that it is expensive. Expensive in food costs, expensive in time costs, expensive in terms of your quality of life. But how expensive? And if it is significantly …
Peanut allergy
FreeFrom Food Awards 2023 – now open for business
The 2023 FreeFrom Food Awards are now open. And if you were wondering - yes, they are opening a bit later than usual this year to allow us to line up our new Easter and Christmas awards with the festivities that they celebrate. So as of this year: 3rd January 2023 Opening …
Food allergy in court
As anyone who is involved in the food allergy world will know, Dr Hazel Gowland (our Freefrom Food Awards Hero in 2019) is a tireless champion of those who live with food allergy. Through her work with the families of those who have suffered fatalities and 'near misses' she has …
Could TRACE study findings point the way to a PAL solution?
One of the biggest bugbears of life as a food allergic person is Precautionary Allergen Labelling (PAL) or May Contain labelling. This is intended to warn you if there is a risk that the food concerned might be contaminated with any of the 14 major allergens. But because it is …
Food allergy and cosmetics
If you are worried about the possibility of food allergens cropping up in cosmetics and want to know whether they are dangerous if they do - and how you are to recognise them - hop over onto Alex G's Allergy Insight blog where he has given a round up of articles on and around the …