NEWS & EVENTS

• Heron Foods will be launching a gluten, wheat and dairy free Batter Mix in the next month.
  This is a product that you can use for making Pancakes, Yorkshire Puddings and Batter for coating fish and chicken. It will be available from the web site as well as a recipe.
  
  
• Heron Foods is involved with The University of Newcastle in a project to determine whether children who fall within the Autistic spectrum have a better quality of life by following a Gluten Free, Casein Free diet. The first trial starts this month with 60 children between the ages of 3 and 5yrs to see if they will accept a range of food that gives them controlled amounts of gluten and or casein in their diets, this trial will go on for one month. The main trial will go ahead with 240 children and last for six months, and should start towards the end of this year. We will publish the results as and when the trial is finished and the results are known.
  
  The trial is funded by The Childrens Foundation of the United Kingdom.
  
  
• Heron Foods have had to increase web prices for the first time since beginning production in 2002. This is due to the Irish government increasing the basic wage by 13%, the increase in transport costs (we bring all our ingredients from southern Germany), and the increase in many of our raw materials due to a poor harvest in Europe and the escalation of the price of seeds and nuts.