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It's almost a year since the Responsibility Deal, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's scheme to get the food and drinks industry to sign up to a series of voluntary pledges aimed at improving the health of the nation. The main three that affect food providers are calorie labelling, salt reduction...
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I think it's very interesting that Alexis Gauthier is blazing a trail on this. Look our for an interview with Alexis Gauthier on why he took the decision to add calorie information to his menu, in Friday's Caterer and Hotelkeeper.
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As reported on Caterersearch.com , after much consultation and deliberation between caterers and the Food Standards Agency over the growing issue of healthy eating, the food industry now has a voluntary mechanism, the Responsibility Deal, that organisations can sign up to. It consists of three pledges...
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We have been following the coverage on the menu labelling debate with interest and would like to make a couple of comments. Much of the debate, rightly, focuses on how a menu labelling scheme could be implemented successfully, with portion size and cost of analysing menus just two of the contentious...
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My thoughts and comments centre around the niche we are in, namely special diets and food allergy / intolerance as well as healthy eating for children and adults alike. Food producers, caterers and restaurants etc who are not transparent, and who are unwilling to listen to what their customers want,...
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It's a Friday night and you've had a few beers down the pub and the junk-food muchies hits you hard. So what will it be? A pizza or burger? For those fast-food junkies that can't decide, Burger King is now offering the "Pizza Burger". Yes, that's right folks - you can munch...
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Thanks Libby – and a very good point. I look at calories all the time particularly when buying lunch! I kind feel guilty for doing so, but at least I have that information. Needless to say, I usually go for the one with less – unless I am having a fat day! :o) Luckily, given the job that...