Nesta backs supermarket-first strategy for mandatory health targets

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Nesta claims that while extending targets to the biggest takeaways and restaurant chains would be viable in the future, they do not currently have the same advanced data monitoring systems as the UK’s biggest supermarkets

Key advisers to the government’s obesity strategy have urged ministers to press ahead with mandatory health targets for supermarkets before extending them to large companies in the out-of-home sector.

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