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 ...
Tags: FOP, nutritional labelling, GDAs, FDF
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 ...
Tags: Salt, foods, retailers, salt content
Gilead Sciences Truvada (emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Truvada is the first agent to get approval for HIV prevention in uninfected adults, a strategy ...
Tags: HIV testing, Truvada, PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis
The government has granted a North Yorkshire egg processor£490,000 towards the construction of a£3M egg processing facility. Chippendale is to build a new£3M egg processing facility The move will secure 40 jobs at ...
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Computerworld - Federal investigators Thursday released a report charging that the Medicare electronic medical records (EMR) program lacks effective fiscal oversight. The report, issued by the Inspector General's office of the Department ...
Tags: Protection, Oversight, Security
DHL operates support organization for healthcare - NHS Supply Chain GBP 1 billion/Euro 1.4 billion savings targeted to the NHS over 10 years around 1,000 new jobs to be created. DHL Logistics has won a 10-year deal totaling GBP 1.6 ...
Tags: DHL, DHL Express, NHS Supply Chain, Business Services Authority, new jobs
The Hong Kong government has issued a ban on the advertising on infant formula associated with kids aged between 6 months to 3 years. This move is aimed at ensuring adequate nutrition for infants and young children aged 36 months or ...
Tags: ban, infant formula, 6 months to 3 years, Hong Kong
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking to use multiple secure email providers via the government’s G-Cloud framework. The move would be the largest deal yet to go through G-Cloud, pushing many millions of pounds through the ...
Tags: NHS anticipates, G-Cloud, secure email services, Denise McDonagh
The Department of Health has reiterated its commitment to get all patient records online by 2015, in its first mandate between the government and the NHS Commissioning Board. The document also states that electronic health records must be ...
Tags: patient records, NHS Commissioning Board, electronic health records
IT services firm Logica, part of the CGI group, has been selected as the supplier of managed payroll services to the Department of Health's Arms Length Bodies. Combined, the organisations employ a total of 30,000 people and include the ...
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An NHS mandate–the first ever–has committed the National Health Service to put all medical records online by March 2015.The mandate also extends to booking GP appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions. In a 28-page ...
Tags: NHS mandate, Department of Health, Sir David Nicholson
This week, just-food attended the SIAL food and drink exhibition in Paris where the team caught up food manufacturers including Genius Foods, Dare Foods, The Irish Dairy Board, as well as the Irish Prime Minister. Outside of Paris, the UK ...
Tags: dairy, food, gluten-free, biscuits
The Department of Health's plan for enabling the public to access their patient medical records online from 2015 needs to take into account the possibility of security being breached,and should include tough sanctions against those who fail ...
Kumba Iron Ore Limited("Kumba")recently funded the purchase of 77 emergency vehicles(60 ambulances,12 planned patient transport service vehicles and 5 emergency rescue vehicles.)as part of the Northern Cape Department of Health's emergency ...
Tags: Kumba, Northern Cape, Emergency vehicles