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allergen labelling

Campaigners Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly talk about living with allergies

02/12/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Cressida has just published this excellent interview she did with Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly on her Linked in page. I thought it needed a wider airing. Understanding allergy from the inside out is so important, so Lindi's and Dan's comments are massively helpful. How do …

Category: Alcohol, Allergies, Blogging/social media, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: allergen labelling, allergen labelling on alcoholic drinks, allergens in alcoholic drinks, Anaphyalxis Campaign, Cressida Langlands on Linked In, Dan Kelly blogger, Lindiwe Lewis, May Contain podcast, The Allergy Table Blog

Yet another child dies from anaphylaxis to a food

30/07/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Losing a child is a dreadful tragedy – our children are not meant to die before us. But how much more horrendous must it be to know that you caused your child's death? So no one can have anything but the most gut wrenching sympathy for Tom, the father of Raffi Pownall who died in …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, FreeFrom Skincare, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: 'freefrom' labelling, 'freefrom' labelling in Morrisons, Alex Gazzola, Alex Gazzola at Allergy Insight, allergen labelling, Allergy Insight, Food information for consumers, FreeFrom Food Awards, No such thing as freefrom, Raffi Pownall, Raffi Pownall dies from eating milk chocolate

‘Gluten free’ versus ‘freefrom gluten’

25/01/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  11 Comments

Worrying about precise definitions is not something that comes naturally to me – I am more of a broad brush sort of person. So many are the arguments that I have with Alex, the acme of precision in definitions terms – and many are the rude names that I have called him when, yet …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 20 parts per million gluten is gluten free, Alex Gazzola, allergen labelling, chaos of PAL, Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, free from gluten, Gluten free, gluten regulations, PAL, precautionary allergen labelling, Waitrose gluten free porridge oats

Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?

21/05/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

In managing food allergy there are two major hazards: The failure to recognise a food allergen that has been included in a dish as an ingredient and The accidental contamination of an otherwise allergen-free food with an allergen. But while the failure to recognize …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: 'may contain' labelling, 2014 Food regulations, allergen as an ingredient, allergen labelling, allergen risk assessment, allergic consumer education, allergy in food service, allergy risks in the food service chain, deaths from food allergies, dedicated gluten free manufacture, dedicated nut free manufacture, Hazel Gowland, how big is the allergen contamination risk?, LEAP peanut study, Michael Walker, peanut immunotherapy, Peanut/treenut allergy, peanuts as an ingredient in satay sauce, precautionary allergen labelling, Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?, thresholds for allergic reactions

Who lives in the dairy these days?

06/03/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Yet more on labelling, I fear – but not this time on traceability or 'may contain' warnings, but on definitions. And you think gluten or nuts are complicated in terms of definitions and labelling? Just try milk.... So which misconception shall we get out of the way first? How …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom FoodTag: 'milk' warnings, allergen labelling, allergen traceability, buffalo milk, Dairy products, Dr Chun-Han Chan, EFSA, eggs not a dairy product, Food Standards Agency, goat's milk, Is lactose free dairy free?, lactase deficiency, Lactose free is not dairy free, lactose intolerance, milk in potato crisps, sheep's milk, Sue Hattersely

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