A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
food labeling
Lactic acid
In a recent blog bemoaning the failure of wine makers to include allergens in the labeling on the bottles, Ruth at What Allergy? said that she had had a bad reaction (eczema – hard, liquid filled lumps which itched until scratched – on her eye lids, cheeks, forhead and across …
Pink Slime…
Last week's final despatch of the shortlisted products in the FreeFrom Skincare Awards to our Beauty Bible volunteers for month-long intensive testing sessions has freed me up to to check out the huge pile of interesting emails and news items that have arrived in my in-box over …
Food labelling – are we any less confused?…
This morning's publication of DEFRA's new guidelines is welcome in that it discourages the use of 'display until' and 'sell by' marks on food – of no value to the consumer, merely designed to help the retailer with their stock control. But does it really help the befuddled …