SMC Food Safety Management Consultants

13/11/2025

💜 We are heartbroken to share the passing of 24-year-old Harry James Kitto, who tragically lost his life after a severe allergic reaction while travelling with his girlfriend Naomi in South America.

Harry’s family have described him as being kind, adventurous, funny, and full of life. His family and friends now face a devastating loss.

His allergic reaction occurred in Buenos Aires, after eating a churros dessert he had been assured did not contain peanut, to which he had a known allergy. Harry and Naomi were due to return home just a few days later.

This terrible news has been reported in the press after a Go Fund Me page was created in Harry’s memory. We at Natasha's Foundation continue to support the family as they take the time and space to grieve privately.

Our love, sympathy, and thoughts are with Harry’s family and friends at this painful time.

Together, we must keep working towards a future where no life is lost to food allergies, in Harry’s name, in Natasha’s name, and in memory of every person lost to food-induced anaphylaxis.

10/10/2025

Well done Bryan Lynch Salads 🙌🙌

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On Monday, Bryan joined Gerry Kelly in LMFM to tell the story of how Bryan Lynch Salads started.

To celebrate this milestone, we're giving away a delicious hamper to a lucky follower. To be in with a chance to win, all you have to do is tell us, what age was Bryan when he started Bryan Lynch Salads?

Listen back to the clip on LMFM here: https://shows.acast.com/b693e735-811a-42a8-a659-4cc4f64bd98f/68e3ee60965488b63a1bc172

10/10/2025

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Natasha had multiple food allergies and asthma. Her symptoms were not unusual for an allergic child, yet the diagnosis dots weren’t joined up as quickly as they should have been.

As a baby, she had eczema. Our doctor prescribed a steroid cream and advised me to apply a prescribed base cream first. Natasha’s skin cracked with deep fissures and bled. She screamed in pain. I took her back to the doctor and was told she was most likely allergic to the lanolin in the base cream. It took weeks for her skin to heal.

When she was just six months old, I gave her a tiny piece of banana and she had an anaphylactic reaction that hospitalised her. Three months later, I asked our doctor if it was safe to give her cow’s milk formula, as I was worried she might also be allergic to it. I was told that as a first-time mum, it was natural to be “oversensitive”, but highly unlikely she would react again. I gave her the formula, and she had another anaphylactic reaction, just as frightening as the first. We were terrified.

Just after Natasha’s first birthday, as her eczema faded, asthma took its place. A skin prick test showed that bananas, dairy and eggs were highly allergenic, and nuts and peanuts were classed as mild. She was two years old now. We didn’t dare give her nuts or peanuts, call it a gut feeling. Soon after, she touched a breadstick with sesame seeds to her lip. I whisked it away, but it was too late, her lip came up red and sore.

Until her fatal reaction in 2016, Natasha hadn’t had an anaphylactic reaction for nine years. We thought we were doing well. Yet that summer, Natasha passed away from anaphylaxis on board a plane. She had eaten a baguette that contained hidden sesame seeds baked into the dough, an ingredient that was not disclosed on the label.

The “what if” questions can drive you mad. Instead, I focus completely on the work of the charity we started in her name, Natasha’s Foundation, and its ambitious mission to Make Allergy History.

Tanya x

30/08/2025

https://www.fsai.ie/news-and-alerts/food-alerts/recall-of-various-branded-spinach-and-mixed-le-(1)

Recall of various branded Spinach and Mixed Leaves products produced by McCormack Family Farms due to the detection of Listeria monocytogenes Saturday, 30 August 2025 Alert Summary Category 1: For Action Alert Notification: 2025.47 Product Identification: Please see table below. Batch Code Please se...

06/08/2025

5 August: Food Alert "For Action": To: Consumers and Food Business who have purchased Noesis, Fix it and Le Damas Dubai-style chocolate products https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-fafa-03-2025-update-1

03/08/2025

03/08/2025

https://www.fsai.ie/News-and-Alerts/Food-Alerts/Update-(3)-to-recall-of-various-branded-Spinach-an

Update (3) to recall of various branded Spinach and Mixed Leaves products produced by McCormack Family Farms due to the detection of Listeria monocytogenes Saturday, 02 August 2025 Alert Summary Category 1: For Action Alert Notification: 2025.35 (Update 3) Product Identification: Please see table be...