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 …
Allergy Insight
Language matters
An excellent post on Alex's Allergy Insight blog about the importance of language and how dangerous it is for terms around allergy to be poorly be defined. What does 'vegan', let alone '100% vegan, mean for someone who is allergic to cow's milk or eggs? What is really referred …
Saturday Kitchen Coeliac furore
A few weeks ago the BBC brought the wrath of the Coeliac community down on its head by again disrespecting them in its evergreen Saturday Kitchen spot. Not only did they joke about guest musician Sharleen Spiteri's coeliac disease but later in the programme they appeared to serve …
Yet another child dies from anaphylaxis to a food
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 …
Unhelpful hatchet job
Those of you who watched Channel 5's Secrets of the Supermarkets last night will no doubt, like Alex Gazzola, be fuming this morning.... Alex was so cross with Chris Young, the Real Bread Campaign's spokesman who appeared on the programme, that he had already leapt into print on …