Health insight and analysis – Page 63
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Analysis and Features
Sugar: now a big fat problem for the soft drinks industry?
Under growing assault from the government and health bodies, suppliers will have to work far harder on finding answers…
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Comment and Opinion
New year, new food militancy
As we step into a brave new year, the Food Militant Tendency is out in force….
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Comment and Opinion
A taste for change on healthy eating
Which? has just published new research assessing the progress made by 10 leading food manufacturers and retailers…
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Analysis and Features
Will the salt reduction stalemate be resolved in 2013?
2013 could be the year the fragile alliance on health policy between government and industry stretches to breaking point…
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Analysis and Features
Staking a claim: will brands respect EFSA's list?
More than four years after the European Food Safety Authority started working…
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Comment and Opinion
Booze price control is no fix
One of the ways in which I contribute to the local community is as a magistrate…
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Comment and Opinion
Labels must help not hinder
Defra has launched a consultation looking to help shoppers make more informed decisions due to food labelling changes….
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Analysis and Features
Stevia's made a good start, but it's yet to float the UK's boat
For an ingredient dubbed the ‘holy grail’ of sweeteners, stevia has had a mixed…
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Comment and Opinion
Labelling debate is an unhealthy waste of time
Hybrid labelling is beginning to resemble a rather nasty multi-vehicle pile-up at a busy junction. Only last month, the…
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Comment and Opinion
The plain cigarette pack debate... and the Jody Scheckter row
Sir: MSR Newsgroup CEO Mick Garton states that standardised tobacco packaging could put him out of business….
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Comment and Opinion
Racking up trouble on the safety front
In September, a food refrigeration firm was fined £140,000 for failing to protect a workers from a fatal accident….
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Analysis and Features
Labels? What labels? 29% of shoppers ignore them all
New research reveals that almost 30% of shoppers don’t look at labels when buying food and drink.
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Comment and Opinion
Zero Noodles make a killing at Holland & Barrett
Holland & Barrett sold out of its entire supply of 10-calorie-per-pack Zero Noodles last week….
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Comment and Opinion
The Saturday Essay: why plain packaging lacks all sense
Plain packaging could put me, and many others like me, out of business….
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Comment and Opinion
Tim Lang: the five sustainability options
Slowly, the penny is dropping that future food security requires a shift to sustainable diets….
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Comment and Opinion
Will manufacturers finally see (traffic) light over labelling?
Recent developments over front-of-pack nutrition labelling have been incredible….
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Comment and Opinion
Why this government is no friend to the food and drink industry
This government says it wants to be a friend to business. As it has repeatedly shown, it is no such thing….
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Comment and Opinion
The nutritional advantage of Belvita Breakfast biscuits
Sir: I was disappointed to read about the claim that the positioning of breakfast biscuits is misleading,…
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Comment and Opinion
Tobacco margins: who's fooling who?
Cigarettes and tobacco have always been an essential element of a convenience offering, often accounting for 40% or more of sales…