Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
A significant piece of work has been published in relation to food allergen recalls in the UK over a recent five-year period. It is open access, written by Sim Ray Yue of Queen’s University Belfast (plus colleagues), and although I’ll…
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In ‘free from’ world, we are well accustomed to product recalls being issued for food and drink — but perhaps less so for non-food products. The EU also has measures in place to withdraw other potentially dangerous products from the…
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Lidl has recalled some batches of their Alesto Honey Peanuts because the word ‘peanuts’ does not appear on the label, as is required by Law. This echoes a recall of over three years ago by Booths, who withdrew some peanut…
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I was at a talk last year where the speaker, a small producer of gluten-free products, explained that the only testing they did on their products was via bought allergen-detection kits. In other words, they never sent their products for…
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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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Allergen-related product recalls are a seemingly weekly occurrence, sadly, but the latest one of Genius Gluten Free Denby Steak Pies seems more significant, somehow – possibly because it’s a major brand, who make very good products, and because the error…
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Last week supermarket Booths withdrew some batches of its Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts due to an error in allergen information: “Monkey nuts” is an alternative term for peanuts, but the word “peanuts” was not declared anywhere on the label….
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A coeliac consumer (CC) contacted me last week with a problem. CC had been eating Sainbury’s GF oats for about a year, and had been experiencing some symptoms. While CC knew, thanks to the product recall of September, that the…
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There has been a flurry of activity towards the end of September with product recalls due to contamination of gluten-free oats. Here are links to the effected products: * Some batches of Sainsbury’s Free From Oats. (Link to FSA here.)…
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