Dr Andrew Wakefield was recently ‘dis-barred’ from practicing his profession in the UK largely as a result of a British Medical Journal suggestion that, in 1998, he ‘fabricated’ the results of his research into what was to be found in the guts of children who regressed into autism around the age of two. He did …
Food/health policy
‘EU Investigates Bug Farming for Protein’ – who can resist a headline like that?….
‘Do you prefer the grasshopper to the ants? What kind of grubs do you have? How about some fried lice? The future of chatter over the dinner table? Insects produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases per kilogram of meat than cattle and pigs. This is the conclusion of scientists at Wageningen University who have joined forces …
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Joined up government – oh yeah – and hyperactivity!
Joined up government – wasn’t that the mantra a couple of years ago? Well… Only this week we reported that the Food Standards Agency had updated its lists of manufacturers who did not use the artificial colours that research has shown to affect both hyperactive and even normal children. (See the Lancet – and here …
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