Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
There is no obligation for any food service outlet to provide for any specialist diet, and those with allergies and intolerances don’t have a right to be catered for by any business. But you’d think by now, with the gluten-free…
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The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) – the ‘voice of the food and drink industry’ – have published a new guide today called Gluten Labelling Best Practice. It is in partnership with Coeliac UK, among others. I’m not sure why…
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You have until 10pm tomorrow to have your say on how the country is governed. And you have until 5pm Friday to have your say on how vegan and vegetarian labelling guidance is changed – or not – to reflect…
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It’s almost a year since I wrote a blog on why a ‘vegan’ declaration on a food or drink may not necessarily mean in practice that the product was safe for those with milk (or egg, or fish) allergy. Following…
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Hotel Chocolat have some ‘milk-free ‘milk’ chocolate’ products – flavoured with almond not milk – which many milk allergic or intolerant consumers, and parents of, took to mean ‘milk allergy safe’ – and bought them. For reasons which aren’t yet…
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Top chefs attack EU rules on allergens in food reads the Telegraph this morning, to a collective sigh of frustration from those with food allergies, coeliac and intolerances, whose lives (in the case of those living with potential anaphylaxis) don’t…
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Last summer Pret launched the ‘Mexican Guacamole’, made with a gluten-free wrap. It carried a disclaimer: “While the ingredients of this product are gluten-free, it has been made in our kitchens which are not gluten-free environments”. Blogger Kevin at Gluten…
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We’ll gloss over my failed prediction from last year’s round-up that low-FODMAP ready meals would be in our supermarkets by the end of 2014 (by end of 2015, definitely … ) and instead kick-off where I left off – with…
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Further developments regarding the M&S / Kinnerton nut-warning confusion which I blogged about last week. To recap, M&S Made Without Dairy chocolate – made by Kinnerton – carries a “not suitable for nut allergy sufferers due to manufacturing methods” warning. A further…
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Marks & Spencer’s ‘Made Without Dairy’ chocolate is manufactured by Kinnerton’s, whose factory has a segregated nut-free area – see their Nut Safety Promise here for more. And yet the M&S labelling for the products carry a nut warning. The…
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