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News: Healthy food policies to promote childhood health and reduce obesity in New Zealand are lacking

This is according to an assessment of policy priorities by a panel of more than 50 of the country’s public health professionals, medical practitioners and NGO leaders. The panel reviewed all the evidence on recent government actions and rated the degree of implementation compared to international benchmarks, in what is being described as the first systematic study on national food policies in the world. The report was part of work by the INFORMAS network to develop the first Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI).
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: New Zealand has announced it will be adopting Australia's new (voluntary) front-of-pack nutrition label

This is the ‘Health Star Food Rating’ system, developed by government, industry, and public health and consumer groups. In Australia, an advisory committee has been established to oversee the voluntary implementation of the HSR system and stakeholder workshops are being held with food companies.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: A Connecticut senator has introduced a bill to remove subsidies for marketing low nutrition food to children

The bill would amend the tax code to prohibit any deduction taken by companies for advertising or marketing through the use of characters, advergames, and in-school promotions of unhealthy foods to children under 14, and direct the revenue generated by eliminating such tax deductions to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which serves elementary school students in low-income areas.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: US food company Heinz has recalled some infant cereal products in China because of excess levels of lead

Reuters reported that the problem affected 1,472 boxes of AD Calcium Hi-Protein Cereal.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Dye content of breakfast cereals, sweets, baked goods, and other foods highlighted

New research by Purdue University scientists, published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, has for the first time highlighted the dye content of breakfast cereals, sweets, baked goods, and other foods.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Food manufacturing company Unilever has pledged funding support in the USA for technologies that would eliminate the culling of male chicks in the egg industry, by determining the sex of chicks before they hatch.

Since most commercial egg production uses specialist breeds deemed useless for meat and as the males won’t lay eggs, they are killed shortly after hatching, leading to the destruction of many millions of chicks every year. The company has been supported to tackle the issue by organisations including Compassion in World Farming, Farm Forward, The Humane League, and The Humane Society of the United States.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Disparities in quality of diet continue to widen among socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups in the USA

This is according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health, which appears in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Data came from a nationally representative sample of 29,124 adults aged 20-85 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: The WHO's Director-General has established a high-level Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity

The Commission will be supported by two working groups: an ad hoc Working Group on Science and Evidence of experts in epidemiology, paediatrics, nutrition, development origins, health literacy, and marketing to children, health economics, physical activity and gestational diabetes; and a Working Group on Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability, featuring experts in monitoring and accountability, joined by representatives of governments, civil society, groups representing children, advocates for child health and nutrition, and international organisations.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Beekeepers in Canada have reportedly launched a class action lawsuit against companies producing neonicotinoids

These include Syngenta and Bayer CropScience, for losses caused by damaged or lost bee colonies and decreased honey production.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation has issued a new position statement on Sugar, Heart Disease, and Stroke

It states that an individual’s total intake of free sugars should not exceed 10 per cent of total daily calorie (energy) intake, and ideally less than five per cent. The statement recommends the government: ensure clear and comprehensive nutrition labelling of the free sugars; establish targets for the food industry to decrease free sugars content in foods; restrict the marketing of all foods and beverages to children; and educate Canadians about the risks associated with free sugars consumption.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014