Leaving home for the first time in your late teens or early 20s is seriously exciting - and seriously scary. Whether you are moving out to get a job or to go to university, this may the first time you have ever lived away from home, had to do your own washing, pay your own bills, …
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Agency in proactive mode
One major plus of being in Europe for food allergics was that all labelling regulation came from Brussels so applied Europe wide. But a major minus was that for new regulation to become mandatory it has to pass through EFSA (The European Food safety Authority). Excellent though …
Has the legislation requiring eateries to know about food allergens helped?
According to recent research from the Food Standards Agency – the legislation has helped, but not spectacularly. The agency used interviews and food diaries from food allergic and intolerant people across the UK, both before and a year after the legislation came into force, to …
‘Why Lidl are not nuts’
Lidl is in trouble with the FSA and has recalled some of the Honey Peanuts because the word 'peanuts' does not appear on the pack even though there is a picture of them. And yes.... this is important. Yet again, I am totally with Alex who rightly maintains that rules must be …
Allergics and Electrosensitives may rue our departure from Europe
Chefs may have bemoaned the introduction of the EU Food Information for Consumers (FIC) rules requiring all eateries to know about the allergens in their foods; for food allergics, coeliacs and anyone on a restricted diet, this was only the most recent of a whole series measures …