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