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#Speak Up for Allergies

03/03/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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, …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: #SpeakUpForAllergies, Allergy reactions in teenagers, anaphylaxis, Dangers of anaphylaxis for young people, Dangers of takeaway food for food allergics, Eating out with a food allergy, Eating takeaway food with a food allergy, Food Standards Agency, FSA, Importance of peer support for young people with food allergy

‘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

Excting allergy research projects

26/09/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: allergens in prepacked foods, Allergy thresholds, BASELINE study, Dr Andrew Wadge, EAT study, Food Standards Agency, FSA, FSA research on food allergens, LEAP study, Professor Ian Kimber, TRACE study

Two and a half cheers for the FSA and their labelling efforts

25/09/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

No – I have not had a Damascene conversion and I do NOT think that the new allergen regulations are wonderful – but I do think that the Food Standards Agency is trying hard, in an extremely difficult area, to do the best they can for allergic consumers – even though that best may …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'Contains' allergen boxes, 'Contains' allergen warnings, 'may contain' warnings, 'milk' warnings, Alex Gazzola, allergen information for food in food service, allergen information for food sold loose, Antony Worrall Thompson, consistency in labelling major allergens, food allergen labelling, Food Standards Agency, FSA, ingredients listing highlighting major allergens, ingredients listings, legibility of ingredients lists, minimum font sizes for ingredients lists, quantifying allergen contamination risk, risk evaluation of allergy potential, Sue Hattersley

When is ‘gluten free’ gluten free?…

10/12/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Email from Sue Cane, coeliac, FreeFrom Food Awards judge and and organiser of the beer judging for the awards: I am doing some research on Marmite as it’s one of those products which is anecdotally gf but I’m convinced isn’t. During my digging, I have been told by  the FSA …

Category: Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 20ppm to be gluten free, celiacs, coeliac disease, coeliacs, definition of freefrom food, Food Standards Agency, Freefrom food, FSA, Gluten-free food, gluten-free food regualtions, good practice manufacturing, growth in the freefrom market, Is Marmite gluten free?, supermarkets' freefrom ranges, voluntary food restricters

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