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Food allergy

Allergy sufferers? No, allergy reactors

12/09/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Like others who live with periodically debilitating health conditions, many allergy 'sufferers' object to being labelled as 'sufferers'.  Yes, on occasion they do 'suffer' as a result of their allergies, sometimes quite acutely, but being labelled as a 'sufferer' suggests a …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Eczema, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Peanut allergyTag: allergy 'sufferers' are not victims, Allergy reactors, anaphylaxis from food allergy, Food allergy, Frans Timmerman, Ruth Holroyd, The Allergy Table, The Reluctant Allergy Expert, What allergy?

The blog moves house…

12/01/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Way back in 2010 when I started this blog, as some of you may remember, its 'header' was a picture of  of our garden here at Lawn Road, complete with Boris, our ginger cat, peering in at the bottom. For several months I had considerable fun changing the header each month to …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Cats, FreeFrom Food, GardensTag: blogging, Food allergy, Food intolerance, Michelle's cats, michelle's garden, social media

Allergen legislation in pubs will not have an easy ride

23/11/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

A short piece in the Publican's Morning Advertiser headlined 'Allergen law 'fatal for pub specials board' has put its finger on one of the trickiest challenges faced by the new allergen regulations for 'food sold loose and in food service'. Waitrose Good Food Guide editor, …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: accidental contamination, allergen training, Antony Worrall Thompson, chefs do not understand allergy, coeliac disease, Daily 'specials' boards, Elizabeth Carter, FDIN, Food allergy, Food intolerance, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, Freefrom food, freefromm pies, Ilumi, independent restaurants, Leon fast food, peanut allergy can kill you, pizza express, Publican's Morning Advertiser, Tanroagan Seafood Restaurant, Waitrose Good Food Guide

How allergic people shop

25/10/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Our good friend Hazel Gowland has been working with a team from Unilever on how people with food allergies actually shop and came up with these interesting, although not entirely surprising, conclusions: Although self-reported, the pattern of food allergy reflects other …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: allergic shoppers behaviour, Allergy Action, anaphylaxis, communicating allergen risk, flaggin up recipe changes, Food allergy, Hazel Gowland, how cautious are allergic shoppers, number suffering from food allergy underestimated, precautionary labelling, reading food labels, Rene Crevel, severe reactions to foods, shopping with allergies

Elucidating allergy/intolerance confusion….

12/01/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'butter' is not always a dairy product, Allergy, allergy to nuts not same as allergy to seeds, brazil and cashews nuts most allergic, Ceres PR, coeliac disease, confusion between coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity, confusion between food allergy and food intolerance, Cow's milk allergy, eggs are not dairy products, Food allergy, Food intolerance, freefrom, Freefrom food, FreeFrom Food Awards, freefrom has no legal status, freefrom is not a marque, Freefrom skincare, gluten sensitivity/intolerance, lactase, lactose intolerance, medical understanding of food allergy, peanut allergics may not be treenut allergic, peanuts are legumes no tree nuts, popular perception of food allergy

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