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News: Low wages behind Moroccan tomatoes sold in European supermarkets

An investigation – The Fruits of their labour: The low wages behind Moroccan tomatoes sold in European supermarkets – published by Fairfood International, has accompanied the launch of a living wage campaign for food workers. Many supermarkets, including Tesco and Sainsbury’s, get their tomatoes from Morocco during the winter.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Farm animal welfare: Past, present and future

This is a Food Ethics Council report commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of the RSPCA’s Freedom Food scheme, and examines how farm animal welfare assurance schemes have developed over the past two decades, and assesses potential future development of such schemes. It features perspectives from retail, government, academia and NGOs.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Inequality in salt intake in Britain

Consensus Action on Salt Health member Franco Cappuccio’s new study has highlighted socioeconomic inequality in salt intake in Britain. Overall population-wide salt intakes have decreased since 2001, but individuals with lower levels of education consume greater levels of salt compared to those of higher socioeconomic status.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: New literature review on taxation of high fat and sugar foods and beverages

Taxation of high fat and sugar foods and beverages and the impact of such taxes on obesity is the subject of a new literature review, available to download from the UK Health Forum. It focuses on peer-reviewed open-access journal literature, with abstracts and links to freely-available full text. Areas covered include: income-specific effects of food and beverage taxes; combining taxes with other interventions; designing food and beverage taxation policy; and effectiveness of food and beverage taxation.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Most organic crop and livestock systems are more energy-efficient than their conventional counterparts

An Organic Research Centre-led review of about 50 studies has concluded that most organic crop and livestock systems are more energy-efficient than their conventional counterparts. The difference between organic and conventional production tends to be greatest for grassland systems, and in some exceptions such as potatoes, and organic pig and poultry production systems, organic performs worse.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Nearly two-thirds of bread products contaminated with pesticides residues

A report released by PAN UK in conjunction with the Organic-Naturally Different campaign, has revealed that nearly two-thirds of bread products tested by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) between 2000 and 2013, were contaminated with pesticides residues. Such residues in bread have more than doubled from 28 per cent in 2001 to 63 per cent in 2013.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: A Sustainable Food Policy for Europe

This is a new report from Compassion in World Farming, which aims to partially fill the gap left while the EU Commission delays on publishing its long-awaited Communication on sustainable food. This report is CIWF’s take on what the Commission’s Communication should be saying. The report is based on publications by bodies such as FAO and UNEP and on the findings of a wide range of scientific research. It primarily focuses on the role of livestock in the food system.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Regulations controlling the sale of raw milk

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board has asked the Agency to maintain the current regulations controlling the sale of raw milk while further evidence is gathered, to allow Board members to make a final decision on whether to revise the rules. Following a review of the current raw milk regulations, the FSA had proposed exploring the scope for wider access to raw milk, including limited sales from vending machines in shops. Along with additional evidence on the risks from specific pathogens, more detail was requested on the proposed testing regime that would be necessary to allow extended sales while maintaining consumer protection. The Board said a final decision should not be made until the European Food Safety Authority has delivered the findings of its own review of the risks from raw milk which is expected in December 2014.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: The three most common safety issues of concern

The results from the FSA’s Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker for May 2014 were published in July. The results show that the three most common safety issues of concern (whether mentioned spontaneously and/or in relation to prompts) were food hygiene when eating out (36%), food poisoning (28%) and the use of additives in food products (28%). Other issues of concern to some respondents were food prices (51% of respondents), the amount of sugar in food (48%) and the amount of salt in food (47%). More than four-fifths (82%) of respondents reported being aware of the hygiene standards in places at which they eat or from whom they buy food. Of these respondents, 39% cited hygiene certificates and 29% cited hygiene stickers, as sources of knowledge about hygiene standards.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: No cases of food on sale with misleading country of origin claims were identified in the investigation

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the results of a study which looked at the origin of foods claiming to be from the UK and Ireland. No cases of food on sale with misleading country of origin claims were identified in the investigation. The study, which used a screening technique known as stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA), followed up with investigating traceability documentation. It examined 96 food samples (beef, pork, lamb, apple juice, tomatoes and honey). Samples were taken from mid-December 2013 to early January 2014. The samples were mostly taken from retail or wholesale outlets, although four samples of raw beef burgers were obtained from caterers. The FSA said that the samples were not fully representative of the market but, within the limitations of a small study, provided a reasonable spread across retailers and across the UK. Samples were taken from both top end food ranges and economy ranges.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014