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gluten-free foods

Horses – labels – and freefrom…

10/02/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'bute', 'contain nut traces', 'may contain', Dairy-free, dedicated freefrom facilities, egg-free foods, Findus lasagne, food labeling, Food safety, Food Standards Agency, FreeFrom Food Awards, FSA allergy alerts, gluten-free foods, horsemeat, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, nut-free foods, phenylbutazone, poor labeling of allergy foods, Roumanian horsemeat, transparency in the food industry

New codex standard for gluten-free food – and the dreaded ‘may contain’…

13/01/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

On January 1st the new regulations governing the use of the term 'gluten-free' came into force. As of Jan.1, to be able to call itself 'gluten-free' a food must contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten, to call itself  'very low gluten'  it must contain less than …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 100ppm gluten, 20ppm gluten, Alex Gazzola, coeliacs, CoeliacsMatter, Dairy-free, Food Standards Agency, gluten contamination, Gluten free, gluten-free diets, gluten-free foods, Green & Black's, law of unintended consequences, lentils, manufacturers of gluten-free products, may contain labeling, milk-free chocolate, Prof Carlo Catassi, Prof Paul Ciclitira, traffic light system, very low gluten

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