The thought of endless bands of children hammering on your door threatening a trick or in search of a treat may strike dread into the hearts of the average householder – but think how much worse is the dread if you are the parent of a food allergic child who is desperate to join …
Peanut/treenut allergy
Allergen and Freefrom Labelling
We recently received the following email from a site visitor: I have a son with a severe peanut allergy. We have a nut free home, and we do not buy products which 'may contain traces' of nuts or from factories which handle nuts, for obvious cross contamination reasons. I was …
Are school peanut bans justified?
For those who are interested in this on-going debate, there is an excellent and balanced article by Gwen Smith in Canada's CBC News - followed by nearly 40 comments which cover almost every aspect of the question. A further posting is to be found on the Eat Nut-Free blog which …
FreeFrom Tasting Tables
Thank you very much to those of you who have commented so far – and, Mimi, I am afraid that some of the tables on the site at the moment are quite old, dating back over a year as that is when the tasting of that particular product happened. However, if we do go ahead and create …
Peanut Allergy – and its Society-wide Ripples
How has peanut allergy crept up on 21st century children? In 1997 there were 416,000 peanut allergic children in the USA; in 2009 there were 4.5 million. This is a thousand-fold increase in a mere 12 years.... And the numbers are still rising. Rising almost as fast is the …