Oh dear... It seems that Vanessa Feltz has been fanning the flames of fury already ignited in the allergic and Coeliac community by Rachel Johnson last week. On Monday's This Morning she complained about the inconvenience of accommodating a Coeliac at the Christmas table and, by …
Alex Gazzola at Allergy Insight
If it is vegan, is it safe for those with allergies to milk or eggs?
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has just issued a report, discussed in an excellent post on Alex Gazzola's Allergy Insight blog, which makes it quite clear that being labelled vegan does not mean that a food is safe for those with allergies to milk or eggs. They …
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 …
The dairy wars
An excellent recent post on Alex Gazzola's AllergyInsight blog covers several subjects (including a recent Anaphylaxis Campaign webinar on novel proteins on which more anon) but homes in on the current battle between the vegan and dairy lobbies, both claiming the moral high grand …
FreeFrom Gift Awards – a new Alex ‘special’! #FFGA
There is no keeping Alex down these days.... No sooner had he finished his very successful on line presentation of this years' FreeFrom Skincare Awards than he was off on another tack – FreeFrom Gifts Awards.... To be fair, this had not come entirely out of the blue. We have …