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Allergy Insight

Food allergy and cosmetics

20/08/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Skincare, Peanut allergyTag: Alex Gazzola at Allergy Insight, Alex Gazzola director of the FreeFrom Skincare Awards, allergens in cosmetics, Allergy Insight, cosmetic allergens, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, SenSpa relaxing talc free body powder

Language matters

29/01/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Insight, allergy terminology, defining allergy terminology, Freefrom food, vegan versus freefrom

Saturday Kitchen Coeliac furore

04/10/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Gluten-freeTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Insight, BBC Saturday Kitchen, Disrespecting coeliac disease, Saturday Chickens, Saturday Kitchen, Sharleen Spiteri, Sharleen Spiteri coeliac disease

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

Unhelpful hatchet job

08/03/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, NutritionTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Insight, British Retail Consortium on gluten free food, Channel 5 Secrets of the Supermarkets, Chris Young - Real bread Campaign, cost of gluten-free food, Genius GlutenFree, Gluten-free food, Joanna Blythman, Joanna blythman on the cost of gluten free food, Lucinda Bruce Gardyne, Real Bread Campaign, Secrets of the Supermarkets, Traceability for gluten free ingredients

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