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Did you know that in the UK 4% of adults and 6% of children have a food allergy or intolerance? When we think of products that people are allergic to, it’s often peanuts, shellfish and those containing lactose that spring to mind. However around 1% of the population, known as coeliacs, is intolerant to gluten. […]
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training HACCP training Nutrition Training News Specialist Courses‘Night of the Radishes’ might sound like second cousin to ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ or some other old B Movie, but believe it or not it’s actually the name of a festival which takes place in Mexico on 23rd December. Whereas in the UK, the radish is an acquired taste and is often left
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsVWA trainer and Leeds Metropolitan University food expert, Gill Hooper, is urging aspiring chefs to host a Cook for a Cure dinner party to boost funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity. The new initiative has also won support from some of the UK’s top TV chefs. Gill’s recipes are listed
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsVWA is counting down the days to Christmas with a special online advent calendar, which gives food manufacturers, processors, caterers, retailers, chefs and anybody else involved in the food industry preferential rates on forthcoming courses. The VWA Advent Calendar will appear at https://www.vwa.co.ukchristmas.htm from 1st December and every day up to and including Christmas Eve there
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsOne of my favorite stories as a child was called ‘The Halloween Pumpkin’ by Pamela Oldfield. In it, an old woman carved out a pumpkin, mounted it on a stick, and placed a candle inside to scare off any errant witches and goblins which might be passing by. The pumpkin, however, had other plans. It
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