All those restaurants who are already seriously nervous about the new 2014 allergy declarations will have been sent into a blue funk by the fate of Jamie's Italian in Portsmouth. They have just pleaded guilty to 'selling food not of the nature and quality demanded by the …
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Illegible, dangerous food labelling
Those of your read my blog last week about the new allergen labeling regulations coming into force in the UK in 2014 may have noted Hazel Gowland's comment at the bottom about the legibility of labeling on prepacked foods – what you buy in the shops. I had suggested that we had …
Experience is vital to understanding
Many of you will have read about Clare's predicament either here in my blog or on the FoodsMatter site. Clare suffers from almost total food intolerance – she is now reduced to about four foods, including venison and swede – that she can just about tolerate, has lost over four …
The parents’ side of it…..
We all spend a great deal of time stressing over children with multiple food allergies – as indeed we should – but, how often do we spare a thought for the rest of the family who, if the allergies are serious/life threatening, live just as restricted a life as their …
Obtaining ‘freefrom’ prescription drugs
A couple of months ago we ran an updated version of an archive article on obtaining prescription drugs whose excipients (non-active ingredients such as fillers, capsules and colourings) were free of lactose, starch, corn, azo dyes, sugars etc – a major problem for those with …