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Food provision in the country's nurseries is to be the focus of investigation for children's food company Organix in alliance with the Soil Association. The investigative team would like to hear from anyone who is currently working in a UK nursery and would be willing to discuss their experiences of the food children are given, as well as filling in a brief questionnaire. For more information, contact Joanna Quinn at joanna.quinn@organix.com.

- The standards of nursery food were also the subject of a discussion byJeanette Orrey, the Soil Association's school meals policy advisor, onBBC Radio 4's 'Food Programme' last Sunday (10 February). Alsointerviewed were representatives from Willow Cottage, runner-up in theOrganix 2007 Nursery Food Awards. The programme can be heard again viathe internet at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer.

- Medical researchers at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in Londonreport that they have found no abnormal immune response to the MMR jabin blood samples from 240 children aged between ten and 12 which couldhave triggered autism. They found no higher concentration of measlesantibodies in children who had autistic spectrum disorder (ASD),compared with children without ASD and those with special educationalneeds. The results, which have been published in the Archives of Diseasein Childhood, were unaffected by whether or not the child had receivedboth doses of the MMR vaccine, the subject of fierce controversy inrecent years.

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