Wes Streeting says supermarkets will be ‘set free’ to decide how to meet new healthy food standard

Wes Streeting Portrait (2)

Streeting said that under his plans for regulation under a new healthy food standard, retailers would be permitted to use promotions to achieve the greatest results on making baskets healthier

Supermarkets will be “set free to do what they think will work” in the fight against obesity under a system of new mandatory health reporting and targets to be announced soon by the government.

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