There are millions of allergy sufferers today who have reason to pay tribute to the work of Dr Alfred William “Bill” Frankland, the “grandfather” of clinical allergy, who has died at the age of 108. He was respected world-wide for his contributions to allergy at a time when this was little understood and particularly [...]
Welcome – an overview Heather Hancock, Chair FSA. The aim of the Food Standards Agency's programmes is to improve the quality of life for the two million people who have to live with food allergies – and the nearly 5 million people who live with food intolerances. A job which is very much worth [...]
It won’t cost you ANYTHING! Making ends meet is difficult for so many of us these days. And raising funds to keep going is the hardest task of all for charities like ours right now. For over 40 years our information and advisory service has been a lifeline for many suffering from all kinds [...]
The government has announced plans to introduce the new legislation this summer which will mandate full ingredients labelling for foods which are prepacked for direct sale. It is proposed that the new laws will come into force in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by summer 2021 – giving food businesses time to adapt to [...]
Better labelling needed to save lives says Nadim Ednan-Laperouse Our daughter Natasha died after eating a baguette sandwich purchased at Pret a Manger, Heathrow Airport in July 2016. The bread had sesame seeds baked into the dough that were not mentioned on the label. This lack of information failed to give what would have [...]
The consultation launched on 25 January and will run for nine weeks. The main issue is the rule concerning foods prepacked for direct sale which are currently not required to carry allergen information. Consumers could assume the absence of allergen information on food packaging means the food does not contain allergens, which may not [...]
Comment from Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, trustee, Action Against Allergy. Thanks to Panorama's sleuths (BBC1 Jan 14) it has been revealed that many of the meals delivered via Just Eat, the biggest of the on line food delivery apps, come from outlets with zero knowledge of what a food allergen might be, let alone which food [...]
Every year there are some 20 deaths from anaphylaxis caused by eating foods to which the victim is fatally allergic and the presence of which they were unaware. The most recent tragic case of teenager Natasha Epnan-Laperouse, who died after eating a baguette containing sesame seeds bought from Pret a Manger and taken on [...]
How much do you know about the water you drink or bathe in? Maxima Skelton, founder-director of The Healthy House, reveals some surprising facts. We should be thankful that we can simply turn on the tap and get "safe" water to drink and bathe in. Before chlorination of water was introduced in the early [...]
Histamine intolerance is a difficult and frustrating condition to suffer from, not least because so few doctors even recognise its existence. But not so Action Against Allergy patron, Dr Janice Joneja, who, having seen the misery it could cause amongst her patients, has made histamine sensitivity a subject of special research and study [...]