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Food Standards Agency

Food Standards Agency in proactive mode

07/03/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: Alexa Baracaia, Carla Jones CEO Allergy UK, Death of Dykan Hall from eating peanuts in a Korma, Dr Paul Turner Imperial College, Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Agency Allergy Symposiu, Heather Hancock Chair FSA, Kafoodle and food allergy, Leon and food allergy, Pizza Express allergy provision, Rupi Zani of Pizza Express, Trading Standards at Barnsley

Has the legislation requiring eateries to know about food allergens helped?

01/08/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: 2014 legislation affecting food service, Food Standards Agency, FSA website, Greater information about allergens does not lead to great choice of allergen free food, provision of allergen information, The preferences of those with food allergies and/or intolerances when eating out

‘Why Lidl are not nuts’

02/08/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Food/Health Policy, Peanut allergyTag: Alex Gazzola, Food Allergy Intolerance Ink, Food Standards Agency, FSA, importance of accurate labelling for allergens, Lidl peanut labelling, Peanut labelling

Allergics and Electrosensitives may rue our departure from Europe

26/06/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

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 …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Food, Food/Health Policy, Politics, TravelTag: 2nd referendum petition, allergen thresholds, electromagnetic radiations, Electrosensitivity, EU food regulations, EU regulations governing food allergy, EU wide work on allergen thresholds, Europe weed research projects on food allergy, European parliament counsels use of precautionary principle re electromagnetic radiation, FIC, Food information for consumers, Food Standards Agency, leaving the Eu a catastrophic mistake, setting alelrgen thresholds

Random thoughts on food crime, sentencing for food crime – and a mental health charity….

23/03/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Working backwards..... We get a great number of people asking us to add links to their site from FoodsMatter but we do feel that we have to be pretty rigorous in keeping our focus on allergy, food allergy, food intolerance and directly related conditions. Otherwise our links …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, FoodTag: 'may contain' warnings, Annual Strategic Assessment of Food Crime, Credence Good, criminally inauthentic spirits, first pressed virgin olive oil, Food Standards Agency, Foodsmatter, Foodsmatter links, FSA Scotland, Integrity and Protection, Manuka honey, Mr Justice Holroyde, new sentencing guidelines, new sentencing guidelines with references food law, Non-foods marketed for human consumption, Rehab4Addiction, The Institute of Food Safety, TiFSiP

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