The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has just issued a report, discussed in an excellent post on Alex Gazzola's Allergy Insight blog, which makes it quite clear that being labelled vegan does not mean that a food is safe for those with allergies to milk or eggs. They …
Food/Health Policy
5G appeal comes to court
You may remember that back in October I posted about the case brought by Action Against 5G against the Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Digital Culture Media and Sport. Their claim was that the government’s actions in …
Food allergy in court
As anyone who is involved in the food allergy world will know, Dr Hazel Gowland (our Freefrom Food Awards Hero in 2019) is a tireless champion of those who live with food allergy. Through her work with the families of those who have suffered fatalities and 'near misses' she has …
Highly Processed food as addictive as tobacco
This is by no means a new theory. How many books has Prof Robert Lustig alone sold explaining the mechanisim by which we can become addicted to food? (For a very brief run down on his theories see this report from a FAB Research conference a few years ago.) However, what has …
More random snippets!
The Week has suddenly become a fertile source of captivating research reports - or is it merely that I failed notice them before? Anyhow, here are two more offerings from last w/e's edition. Apologies if you have seen either elsewhere before. Peacemaker pigs A group of …