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'May contain nuts' warnings

The problem with nuts….

31/01/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

Well, to be honest, it is not nuts that are the problem, it is the confusion arising from the laudable efforts of regulators and manufacturers to improve allergen labelling for the benefit of allergic consumers. But, nuts being at the sharp end of the allergy experience, nut …

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Alpro in the dock over defensive labelling

21/01/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

What an absurd situation! Alpro, makers of one of the very few products that nut and dairy allergic children can eat safely, are actively preventing that very group from buying them! How? By slapping defensive 'may contain traces of nuts' warnings on all of their products. For …

Category: Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: 'May contain nuts' warnings, 'may contain' warnings, Alpro, Alpro almond and hazel milks, Alpro an 'ethical' company, Alpro in food service, Alpro Junio +1, Alpro soya milks, Alpro:SOS, amino acid infant formula, Dean Foods, nut and dairy allergic children, the need for 'may contain' warnings

Alpro causes storm over proposed nut warnings

25/11/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Alpro's plans to combine their soya and nut milk-making facilities on one site thereby, as they see it, necessitating nut warnings on their soya milk, have caused  understandable uproar within the nut-allergic community. All too of many of the rapidly growing number of …

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