Health insight and analysis – Page 74
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Analysis & FeaturesTB reactor meat: where retailers and suppliers stand
The Grocer asked retailers and suppliers to spell out their policies on cattle that have tested positive for bovine TB…
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Comment & Opinion
Conservatives' tobacco smoke signals are not encouraging
Stupidly, I had begun to think that nothing politicians did would amaze me any longer…
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Comment & Opinion
Scots lead in responsibility
There is a different approach to many food issues emerging north of the border…
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Comment & Opinion
Why everyone's talking about sustainable diets
What is a sustainable diet? This innocuous question raises fiendishly complex issues…
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Analysis & FeaturesClubcard is recruited as a fat fighter as Tesco sets agenda
A gimmick, or pre-empting a backlash against voluntary action?…
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Comment & Opinion
GM feed: supermarkets are talking tosh
What tosh supermarkets talk about listening to their customers…
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Comment & OpinionPlain packs - back on the shelf?
Today the Department of Health told me of its surprise at a story in The Sun proclaiming the news the PM had scrapped plans to force tobacco into plain packs…
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Analysis & FeaturesWill 'digital' cigarettes light up the UK tobacco market?
Forecasts of the electronic cigarette making traditional tobacco obsolete may be plausible…
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Comment & Opinion
Obesity: local authorities may turn more interventionist
On 1 April, responsibility for public health was transferred from the Department of Health to local government…
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Comment & OpinionIn the health onslaught, this looks like a salt and battery
The industry is suffering from a health regulation onslaught, or as it should henceforth be known, a salt and battery…
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Analysis & FeaturesSalt reduction: Can technology overcome the DH's bombshell?
The government now wants a red light for any portion containing more than 1.8g of salt…
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Analysis & FeaturesDo new Coke ads convince that it cares about obesity?
Three experts rule: impressive altruism or just saccharine PR?…
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Category ReportFrozen yoghurt in healthy sales surge
Super-indulgent stick and tub formats might be ones to watch in the ice cream aisle in 2013, but so is super-healthy froze…
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Comment & Opinion
Get set for digital health
Much of the excitement at the recent CES gadget show in Las Vegas centred on wearable technology…
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Comment & Opinion
The obesity crisis is a personal problem, too
Last week’s recommendations from the Academy of Medical Colleges highlighted the growing obesity crisis in the UK…
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Comment & Opinion
Is employee welfare the next health scare to face the industry?
When I worked at The Grocer, the spotlight was on BSE, e.coli and food colouring…
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Comment & Opinion
After horsegate, value products need better values
No surprise that 15% of 6,221 consumers interviewed by Kantar said they would think twice about buying value ranges…
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Comment & Opinion
Horse meat: Shorter supply chains may help rebuild trust
As the horse meat scandal serves up ever-more shocking revelations, a number of things stand out…
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Comment & Opinion
After horsegate we need to rethink meat values
The latest scandal to expose the broken nature of our food system is the revelation of horsemeat in ‘value’ burgers…
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Category ReportTobacco - going upin smoke?
First the display ban, now rising duty, the threat of plain packs and smokers downtrading. Can the industry fight back?…