The new nutrient profiling model could rewrite UK food rules

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A technical change in the NPM could substantially reduce unhealthy food marketing to children, says Dr Alison Tedstone, former chief nutritionist at Public Health England and the DHSC, and expert advisor to the Obesity Health Alliance

The government’s new nutrient profiling model (NPM) sounds like the kind of policy detail you’d normally be tempted to skip. But it matters because it is the tool that, in law, decides what counts as “healthier” and “less healthy” food and drink, and therefore which products can be advertised to children, and how and where they can be promoted in shops.

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