Should caterers provide written allergy information?
The new law states that food businesses can choose to provide allergen information verbally rather than provide documented information; I recently conducted a quick poll across 4 social media groups (multiple allergies and coeliac) to get feedback to see if the food allergy community felt they could trust a venue to just give verbal information. […]
Free From Bulletin for suppliers
Check out our first edition of the Free From Bulletin here or read on for more information, to sign up and receive the newsletter click here Welcome to our first Free-From Bulletin specifically for suppliers of free from products and services. In the news Did you catch the article in the The Telegraph #100top chefs […]
2014 round up for the Food Allergy Training Consultancy
The team at FATC have been very busy this year and we thought it was time to give you an update on where we are at with food allergy training, with the new labelling regulations looming around the corner. Well there are less than 10 days for the new allergen labelling regulations to become law […]
The UK’s first paleolithic and specialist ‘free-from’ restaurant opens
This winter, London will see the launch of the UK’s first paleolithic and specialist ‘free-from’ restaurant. Following an exceptionally successful run as a monthly pop-up in Sussex, Pure Taste will soon open its 100% gluten free restaurant on London’s Westbourne Grove. The restaurant will not only cater for the paleolithic, and many other […]
Compelling conferences, live attractions and essential seminars at Food Matters Live
Food Matters Live’ – a unique cross-sector forum bringing together thousands of visitors from the worlds of food service, retail, manufacturing, health, nutrition and public policy. Taking place at London’s ExCeL from Tuesday 18 – Thursday 20 November, it will address one of the most important issues of our time: the relationship between the customer, […]
Cow’s Milk takes around four months to diagnose
PRESS RELEASE @cowsmilkallery THE MOST COMMON FOOD ALLERGY IN INFANTS (COW’S MILK ALLERGY) TAKES AROUND FOUR MONTHS TO DIAGNOSE COSTING PARENTS AND GPs TIME Together with Allergy UK and Mead Johnson Nutrition, a new campaign has been launched called Is it Cow’s Milk Allergy, which aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of CMA and […]
Everything You Need to Know about Seafood Allergies
Our guest blogger this week is Kate Addams and today, she’ll be blogging about Red Tractor Assurance, the largest farm and food assurance scheme in the UK.” More people are developing food allergies than ever before. In fact, the number of children developing food allergies increased by almost 20 per cent between 1997 and 2007. […]
Eating out with Food Allergies in the UK
Guest Blogger Jackie Mitchell is a journalist and public relations consultant with over fifteen years’ experience. She works with small businesses and charities providing PR services. Jackie is gluten intolerant, and her husband is dairy intolerant and often eats out with others who have other food intolerance’s. You can view jackie’s blog here where she […]
Anaphylaxis Campaign Film Project
Help the Anaphylaxis Campaign make a short film to save the lives of young adults with severe allergies 20 people a year will die from anaphylaxis Many of these deaths will be 15 – 25 year olds. We need to create a film that highlights the severity and associated risks of anaphylaxis and the preventable […]
Why are we all avoiding gluten? What are the implications?
Yesterday both the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph (links below) ran long articles on the stratospheric growth in the gluten free food market. This is a subject that hospitality and foodservice operators need to understand for its implications on their businesses – now, and in the future. It is already clear that the gluten free market is […]