Life is never simple, is it? Just this morning I was reading about the new 'intelligent' pills which contain a microchip that will react with the acid in your stomach and send a message to your mobile phone reminding you to take another pill. This may sound loopy but it could …
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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 …
John Scott Celebrates Going on a Diet!
While athletics enthusiasts are celebrating the UK's record haul of gold medals this week, another celebration is in order! John Scott, who long-term Foodsmatter supporters will remember suffered from such total and comprehensive food allergy/intolerance that, when we first met …
Food Standards Agency Reprieved – Or is it?…
Well, the axe has now fallen and the government has announced its decision over the future of the Food Standards Agency. (If you are not up to speed on the background, click here.) As axes go, it is a pretty spongy one as they propose to retain 2,000 of the current 2,100 jobs …
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 …