Comment & opinion – Page 557
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Comment & Opinion
Incpen may be active but is not an activist
Incpen may be active but is not an activist
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Letter of the week - Bottled water ban: sheer nonsense
The views of the Mayor of San Francisco and Professor Tim Lang are laudable, but a move to ban bottled water is naïve and far more 'nonsensical' than bottling it in the first place ('The true cost of bottling water', The Grocer, 14 July, p23). A ban...
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Sudan 1, then Para Red.Now Red 2G. What's next?
The recent ban on Red 2G underscores the new level of scrutiny of food additives The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) decision to ban the food colouring Red 2G shows that food safety law in Europe is in a state of constant flux and...
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Tougher times lie ahead for retail
Atrocious rain has hit commodity costs, food prices are going up, and consumers are being hit by higher interest rates. That means food retail growth will be squeezed Believe it or not, being forced to watch Coronation Street five times a week does...
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Poor diets are a matter of choice
Food Standards Agency research has exploded the myth that people on low incomes are restricted to less healthy, poorer quality foodSo now we have it. A piece of definitive research by the Food Standards Agency that torpedoes a raft of...
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Wheat prices hitting pig production sector
Sir; Your article on soaring wheat costs rightly drew attention to the impacts on millers and bakers ('Rocketing wheat costs start to bite', The Grocer, 21 July, p5). Just as importantly, dramatic rises in feed wheat prices are already starting...
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Letter of the week - Don't demonise bottled water, Tim
Professor Tim Lang's opinion on bottled water lacked understanding about bottled water as a product, its UK market growth and the real eco-cost of the public water supply ('The true cost of bottling water', The Grocer, 14 July, p23). He cites...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey - 21st July 2007
I'm lying low at the moment, gentle readers, for reasons that will become clear. The week started quietly enough with a sortie to the M&S agm to enjoy the spectacle of Stuart Rose's geriatric groupies pin down their CEO with their searching...
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Thank goodness for the pioneers
Paterson Arran has led by example, reducing its use of palm oil. It's one of a band of independents that put the rest of the industry to shame Being someone who brings a sceptical eye to the mechanics of the food industry, and is alert...
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Opinion - "Does the use of selective and limited data reflect a wider malaise of muddled thinking at the Competition Commission?"
Does the CC have the foggiest idea what it is doing? It appears to change its mind at every turn, holding strong opinions until the next persuasive argument comes along, and regularly plays soft and slow, and a little bit loose with facts. Its...
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Don't just ignore c-stores, use credible data instead
Decisions are soon to be made in the Commission's inquiry. It's time to change the way buying power is assessed so we really find out what is happening to small storesThe Commission's working paper on supplier prices is a big step...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey - 7th July 2007
All of us are lying in the gusset, dear reader, but with apologies to Mr Wilde, some of us are looking at the bras. This was my thought as I tripped lightly from Number 10 on Friday. I had greatly feared that after shoving my former boss Darling...
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Obituary
Well-known grocery figure Mike Nemeth died on 4 July following a long illness.Nemeth was 56 years old and had worked in the grocery industry for most of his career. He had a considerable knowledge of the cash and carry sector and...
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Benn has to understand: green is not the only issue
Ministers come and go, but the buying and selling of groceries goes on regardless. What significance do the changes in the Cabinet have for supermarkets, processors, farmers and the rest of the supply chain?Isuppose that, as a member of...
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Too much candy can rot your soul
Spot anything wrong with the chocolate bars in this picture? California cops did when they stumbled across them during a recent raid on a drugs factory in Oakland. The products, which were designed to look like beloved confectionery...
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Opinion - "Supermarkets exploiting their power by pushing up prices? These statistics don't tell the whole story"
Food price inflation is a hot topic right now. And to prove it a flurry of new figures came out this week suggesting variously that grocery prices in the UK are up 6% year-on-year (ONS), which means they're rising faster in this country than...
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Get real. Forget codes of conduct
The supermarkets code of conduct is ineffective and legislation is pointless. Supply and demand will always drive the market.So the competition authorities have concluded in a working paper that the voluntary code of conduct dealing with...
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Let people make their own choices
Dosing up the nation with folic acid is not the answer to cutting defects. A targeted campaign and more research is so much more practical When is the government going to get the message that people don't want to be told what to...