The government is using prime-time TV to raise awareness of the “hidden nasties” in everyday food. The Change4Life campaign aims to educate consumers about their food ITV aired the first advert in the Change4Life campaign ...
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Pop into your local supermarket and pick up a packet of own label chocolate digestive biscuits. Now carefully inspect the packaging. Across the front and back of the pack you’ll find a raft of information that goes beyond brand ...
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Britain is facing a “dessert deficit” to rival the economic deficit, claimed Owen Paterson MP, secretary of state at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Paterson made the quip at last night’s Food ...
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Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King today (9 October) called on the UK food industry to adopt common front-of-pack nutrition labels. King said the sector should "put aside their differences" and introduce "universal" labelling. ...
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The UK government has announced it is recommending a standardised, hybrid approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional labelling. The labels outlined will incorporate a combination of guideline daily amounts (GDAs), colour coding and ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
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The UK government said today (10 July) there needs to be "a culture change" in the food industry to ensure the country can produce food sustainably amid "soaring" population growth. UK farming minister Jim Paice called on all in the ...
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Food manufacturers including Nestle, Mondelez International and Unilever have announced plans to "harmonise" the way they label the nutritional information for products sold in the EU. Twelve companies, which also include Kellogg, Mars ...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
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The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and British Retail Consortium (BRC) have published a report that claims UK retailers and manufacturers are "reaching the limit" of what they can achieve on salt reduction. The project, undertaken by ...
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Africa and the Middle East have driven a rise in exports of food and non-alcoholic drinks from the UK in the first half of 2012, figures show. For the six months to the end of June, food and soft drinks exports increased by 2.2% to ...
Food manufacturers and producers welcomed chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement yesterday(December 5)highlighting changes to the tax system as benefiting the food and drink manufacturing industry. The Food and Drink ...
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UK-based food company United Biscuits has invited year 10 students from Manchester-based Parrs Wood High School to visit its McVitie's factory in Manchester, as a partner in the government-led initiative to encourage young people to take up ...
The UK food and non-alcoholic beverages (F&B) exports for the first six months of 2012 have increased 2.2% to £5.9bn compared to the same period in the prior year, according to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF). Exports to all ...
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Britain's food and drink manufacturers are bracing themselves for difficult Christmas trading,according to the Food and Drink Federation(FDF). Speaking after the FDF's latest business confidence survey,FDF's economic and commercial ...
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