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Food safety

Horses – labels – and freefrom…

10/02/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'bute', 'contain nut traces', 'may contain', Dairy-free, dedicated freefrom facilities, egg-free foods, Findus lasagne, food labeling, Food safety, Food Standards Agency, FreeFrom Food Awards, FSA allergy alerts, gluten-free foods, horsemeat, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, nut-free foods, phenylbutazone, poor labeling of allergy foods, Roumanian horsemeat, transparency in the food industry

Illegible, dangerous food labelling

11/11/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: allergen labelling, anaphylaxis, death from milk allergy, Deja Hay, Food labeling legislation, food labelling, food labelling regulations, Food safety, Hazel Gowland, ingredient listing, milk allergy, printing on shiny paper, sweet wrappers, use of too many languages on food labels

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