Health insight and analysis – Page 82
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Comment & OpinionTraffic-light front-of-pack labels will bring huge benefits
On Wednesday the UK governments launched a traffic-light nutrition labelling scheme for front-of-pack…
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Analysis & FeaturesDoes a big regulatory stick loom for the e-cig market?
The MHRA is pouncing but Brussels may take a different view on the fast-growing electronic cigarette market…
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Comment & OpinionIsn't hybrid labelling going to confuse consumers further?
The industry finally saw the lights at the end of the labelling tunnel this week…
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Analysis & FeaturesSatfat reduction challenge: Scotland bites deeper
Scotland’s draft framework to tackle obesity includes prescriptive category-wide reformulation targets…
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare: Innovations
Two weight-loss supplements have been combined into one “natural weight-loss product”, Raspberry Ketones and Green coffee Bean Extract…
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare: shoppers turn stockpilers
The vitamins, minerals & supplements (VMS) market continues to see slight growth.
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare and supplements
It’s a healthy picture for cost-conscious vitamin fans: specialists have lost chunks of market share to the discounters and multiples…
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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…