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'may contain' warnings

The vegan/allergy labelling issue

02/02/2024 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Image courtesy of Hooley & Brown In theory the huge growth in the number of vegan products on the market should be a massive bonus for those with milk or egg allergies. But - because so many of them come with PAL/May Contain warnings for milk and egg, it has also been a …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Food, Food/Health Policy, VeganTag: 'may contain' warnings, Chartered Trading Standards Institute, freefrom animal products, Jess Merrifield, PAL, precautionary allergen labelling, risks of vegan food for milk and egg allergics, Trading Standards, vegan, vegan food, VITAL Allergen Bureau, VITAL allergy programme

Random thoughts on food crime, sentencing for food crime – and a mental health charity….

23/03/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Working backwards..... We get a great number of people asking us to add links to their site from FoodsMatter but we do feel that we have to be pretty rigorous in keeping our focus on allergy, food allergy, food intolerance and directly related conditions. Otherwise our links …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, FoodTag: 'may contain' warnings, Annual Strategic Assessment of Food Crime, Credence Good, criminally inauthentic spirits, first pressed virgin olive oil, Food Standards Agency, Foodsmatter, Foodsmatter links, FSA Scotland, Integrity and Protection, Manuka honey, Mr Justice Holroyde, new sentencing guidelines, new sentencing guidelines with references food law, Non-foods marketed for human consumption, Rehab4Addiction, The Institute of Food Safety, TiFSiP

FreeFrom Food Awards – matters arising…

06/02/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

There is no doubt that the quality of the products entered into the 2016 FreeFrom Food Awards has continued to improve. It is rare now that  one meets a product which is obviously 'free from' anything; more often than not they are either indistinguishable from 'normal' products …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: 'may contain' warnings, coconut and freefrom, contamination of freefrom foods, dedicated freefrom manufacture, food labelling regulations, FreeFrom Food Awards, Freefrom Food Awards shortlist, including unnecessary allergens, labelling of freefrom products, making freefrom foods without additives, nutritional profile of freefrom foods, precautionary allergen labelling

The mess that is ‘may contain’

24/10/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Many of you will have filled in our 'may contain' survey a few weeks ago and I promised both to let you know the results – and to explain why it was that we were doing the survey. So a few results first: When you were asked what you thought when faced with a ‘may contain …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergy, PoliticsTag: 'may contain' warnings, allergy action levels, consumer confusion over main contain labelling, Eu commission and FIR, Eu commission and PAL, FDIN - FreeFrom - Tapping into a new healthier Lifestyle, FIR 2014, FIR for intentionally included allergens, Food Information Regulations, industry confusion over PAL, PAL, Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?, risk to consumer of many contain confusion, You Gov survey for FDIN

Frustration and anger of ‘may contain’ labelling

07/10/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

A very brief post as I am just off to catch a plane to Dublin to help launch the new Irish FreeFrom Food Awards! As many of you will know, we at FoodsMatter are looking at starting a 'freefrom' assurance scheme the purpose of which will be to bring some clarity to the current …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: 'may contain' warnings, confusion surrounding 'may contain' warnings on food, frustration in freeform food industry over precautionary allergen labelling, PAL frustrates industry and is dangerous for the consumer

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