Not surprisingly the press has been awash this week in articles and programmes about the new allergen regulations. Good! Great that they are paying attention and covering the subject. However, inevitably, the coverage has also brought the worst along with the best – such as some …
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A ‘gluten-free scam’, the ensuing rants and terminological confusion
Julia Llewellyn Smith has caused a predictable storm with her article in yesterday's Telegraph, The Great Gluten-free Scam. In essence she is saying (backed by coeliac nutritionist, Ian Marber) that gluten is being demonised. It is not the cause of every ill from which you …
Fukushima fall out
The web has been awash for the last year in disaster movie scenarios of what could happen if the badly damaged reactors at Fukushima were hit by another earthquake or just, as they quite possibly could, collapsed. A report in late March which found that the cooling water levels …