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 …
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A food fad won’t kill you – an allergy will
There has been a predictable outcry in the allergy world this week's in response to Rachel Johnson's piece in Thursday's Evening Standard on 'dietary requirements' and food fads. Being charitable, I am assuming that she has never suffered from or lived with someone with a food …
No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….
Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …
May contain madness…..
Those of you who read my recent report on Professor Clare Mills' presentation at the Anaphylaxis Campaign's conference in September will know that things are moving forward, slowly, on the 'may contain', precautionary allergen labelling front. But meanwhile we are still living …
‘Gluten free’ versus ‘freefrom gluten’
Worrying about precise definitions is not something that comes naturally to me – I am more of a broad brush sort of person. So many are the arguments that I have with Alex, the acme of precision in definitions terms – and many are the rude names that I have called him when, yet …