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News: December 2011

Boosting trade for disabled entrepreneurs in hospitality

December 15, 2011

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are often successful in the hospitality sector. We’re just as good at running hotels, bed and breakfasts, restaurants and cafes, conferences and events as anyone else. But sometimes we have to work harder to reassure our customers, contractors, partners and lenders that we’re up to the job. We have to overcome unjustified doubts about our abilities. For some of us there are real mobility and communication challenges. We often …

Boosting trade for disabled entrepreneurs in hospitality

Colour additives and the effects they have on children

December 15, 2011

John Dyson, Food and Technical Affairs Adviser at the British Hospitality Association met with the Food Standards Agency to discuss the colours that are used in foods as an additive and the effects they have on children. The following colours identified by a Southampton University study financed by the Food Standards Agency are: Sunset yellow FCF (E110) Quinoline yellow (E104) Carmoisine (E122) Allura red (E129) Tartrazine (E102) Ponceau 4R (E124) The study …

Colour additives and the effects they have on children