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 …
Food allergy
The blog moves house…
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 …
Allergen legislation in pubs will not have an easy ride
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, …
How allergic people shop
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 …
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 …