Every Label Hinders …
… if it’s got ‘may contain nuts’ on it. And, sadly, it seems that many Tesco products do. If you’ve not yet heard of the brouhaha that kicked off last week on Tesco’s Facebook page following their confused and mixed…
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M&S Launches – and Twitter
Very quick post – and not my usual sort, but hopefully appreciated by dairy and gluten sensitives … and perhaps those who react to other allergens. Have just attended an M&S press event in London. The following products are launching…
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Poor Liddle Thing
I don’t know how many friends Rod Liddle could count among the food sensitive community before he unveiled his latest opinion to Spectator readers, but I suspect that figure has declined considerably, if the response that appeared in my Twitter…
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Do Me A Favour
“A suggestion, kindly meant: you need to establish relationships with individuals and organisations before asking them for favours.” I sent those words in an email to a certain nutritionists’ directory in November 2011. It was in response to perhaps half…
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2013: a good or bad ‘free from’ year?
Was it the year of the villain? The one who first springs to my mind is cook Stacie Stewart, appearing on Food Glorious Food, who took a fair bit of flak (largely unfairly, in my view) following some flippant remarks…
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More maths, more coeliac, one more lesson
In my last blog we looked at what would happen were we to screen the entire population for coeliac disease, inspired entirely by a great little video by mathematician, Dan Abramson. In a nutshell, two out of every three blood-positive…
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Maths, coeliac, lots of useful lessons
Before I did this writing lark I worked in the City – temping, IT helpdesk, software training – and before that I worked in various cigarette kiosks in and around Cardiff (South Walian smoker in the 90s? Bet I’ll have…
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Gluten allergy: a question of semantics
“’gluten allergy’ … really doesn’t exist. It’s not really a recognized allergy. Wheat is a recognized allergy – but a lot of people will misinterpret that as gluten.” So says Dr David Stukus, as reported in a Today.com article on…
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A gluten-free scam? Really?
This Telegraph article on “The Great Gluten-Free Scam” is an interesting read – and I’m delighted to see lots of good input from the terrific coeliac nutritionist Ian Marber – though a few bits have irritated, and several others deserve…
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Tuna contains tuna: A label explained … mostly
The label in question is this one, on some Marks and Spencer tuna paté. I blogged about the new allergy labelling legislation some weeks ago. It’s been effective since December 2011 but will not be compulsory till December 2014 –…
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