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, …
FSA
‘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 …
Two and a half cheers for the FSA and their labelling efforts
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 …
When is ‘gluten free’ gluten free?…
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 …