Earlier this month the Food Standards Agency held one of its annual food allergy/hypersensitvity (FHS) symposiums. We were in the middle of the FreeFrom Food Awards judging so I couldn't be there in person but fortunately they offered on line access to all of the talks and …
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The new Anaphylaxis Registry
Data, data, data.... Data, we are told, is king. Without data you cannot understand what has happened in any given circumstance, you cannot improve your response to it and you cannot plan to prevent it happening again. But as far as anaphylactic reactions are concerned, data has, …
#Speak Up for Allergies
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, …
‘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 …
Excting allergy research projects
On Wednesday I went, for the first time, to the Food Standards Agency's annual presentation, this year focused on their work in the field of food allergy, and on the departure of the splendid Dr Andrew Wadge who has headed up the scientific arm of the FSA since 2000. (He pointed …