Many American universities, unlike those in the UK, require students living on campus to 'participate in a meal plan'. This, in the case of Lesley University in Massachusetts, has brought them into conflict with the 2009 amendments to US disability law that now class 'episodic …
coeliac disease
Gluten-free food on prescription – again…
I realise that I am coming rather late to the most recent prescription charge furore – set off by the article in the BMJ's Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggesting that providing gluten-free food for coeliacs on prescription is bureaucratic, inefficient and outdated – see the …
Bad medicine: food intolerance
A few days ago Alex Gazzola pointed me to an article in the current issue of the BMJ by Dr Des Spence, a GP in Glasgow, laying into both the 'allergy industry' and the food industry for promoting food intolerance as a way to make money. You can read the article here and comment …
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in full swing
Kim McGowan, Frank Bordoni and Hulya Erdal in serious discussion. Well, we are through the first week of judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards and it has proved as exciting (in terms of new products) and as interesting (in terms of judges' views) as ever! From a judge's point …
Elucidating allergy/intolerance confusion….
Last week we had a meeting with the lovely Ceres PR who will be working with us on promoting the FreeFrom Food Awards this year – and one of the things they asked us to outline for them in our briefing was areas of confusion in 'freefrom' and allergy/intolerance. Not a …