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Comment & OpinionWhat the latest ASA HFSS rulings mean for brands
What do a winking yellow M&M and an almond croissant have in common? Both have helped shape the ASA’s emerging approach to HFSS advertising rules, says Katrina Anderson, partner at Mills & Reeve
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NewsSupermarket bosses in appeal to ‘save’ Wales deposit return scheme
Figures including Tesco UK CEO Ashwin Prasad and Sainsbury’s chief Simon Roberts have joined drinks leaders from companies including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in a letter to Welsh first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth
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News‘Scramble’ to meet new packaging tax deadline
The scheme administrator had already brought forward the deadline to 1 November and has now moved it again, to 1 September, following discussions with ministers
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Comment & OpinionJunk food ad ban: clarity, confusion and a pizza-sized loophole
The stage is now set for an almighty clash between health campaign groups, politicians and the food industry after today’s landmark ASA rulings
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NewsBacklash as fast food chains swerve government’s junk food clampdown
In a string of Advertising Standards Authority rulings published today, the watchdog dismissed complaints about the ads of companies including Burger King, Domino’s Pizza, KFC and Uber Eats
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NewsDubai chocolate in food safety fail, finds FSA test
Only one of 45 Dubai-style chocolates passed every check in the FSA’s latest retail surveillance programme
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NewsAIMS appoints former FSA heavyweight as new chairman
He began his new role on Wednesday 1 July, succeeding John Thorley
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Comment & Opinion‘Made in Britain’ labels are no substitute for farming policy
In a return to the old political battleground of food labels, more than 40 MPs have called for the government to require clearer country-of-origin labelling on a wider range of meat products
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Comment & OpinionWhy food and drink brands need to invest in tackling litter
Recyclable packaging alone won’t solve litter – a Yorkshire pilot shows behaviour change can work, says Alison Ogden- Newton, CEO of Keep Britain Tidy
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NewsEU approves pioneering food additive for tackling obesity
Now it is approved in the EU, the scientists behind the ingredient expect the UK regulator to quickly follow suit
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NewsHealthy food proposals could cut childhood obesity by a quarter, study finds
The policy is aimed at encouraging supermarkets to make the average shopping basket healthier
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NewsWelsh food businesses call for DRS alignment with rest of UK
Unlike schemes launching in other parts of the UK, Wales plans to include glass
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Comment & OpinionShopworkers deserve better than a law with no teeth
Tougher laws have failed to prevent an increase in assaults on shopworkers in Scotland. What’s going on?
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NewsScottish retail worker assaults rise every year since 2021 protection law
There have been 1,318 incidents of retail worker assaults reported to Police Scotland in 2026 so far
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Comment & OpinionThe regulatory reckoning coming to the period aisle
New regulation is coming to period care – and retailers carry more risk than they think, says St.John Pearce-Burke, co-founder & CEO at TOTM
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Comment & OpinionThe Treasury can’t mark its own homework on alcohol duty reform
As we approach the three-year anniversary of the first major reform of the UK’s alcohol excise regime in over 50 years, Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, shares his hopes and fears of the government’s evaluation of the new system
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Comment & OpinionThe bowl of cereal that broke the nutritional algorithm
A 20-year-old agorithm is about to reclassify Bran Flakes as junk food – it’s time to fix it, says Adam Aljewicz, director at WeAreSPQR
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NewsRetailers back EUDR-aligned UK anti-deforestation rules
Defra said the move would ‘further decouple UK consumption from global deforestation’
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Comment & OpinionFacial recognition needs human judgement
Retailers rushing to deploy facial recognition must understand that the technology is only as defensible as the decisions surrounding it, says Lauren Wills-Dixon, partner and head of privacy and data protection at Gordons
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News10 years after Brexit referendum, ‘muddled’ EU reset ‘lacks strategy’ MPs warn
The Commons Business and Trade Committee warned the government had failed to articulate a clear long-term vision for UK-EU relations