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Children’s Groups Tell Advertisers: “Protect All Children From Junk Food Marketing” - Children’s Food Campaign: 19/06/2009
Leading UK children’s groups, including The Children’s Society, NCB and the Children’s Food Campaign, have today called upon the Committee of Advertising Practice to change its code of practice so that all children are properly protected from junk food advertising.

Real Bread Campaign wins the lottery (sort of) - Real Bread Campaign: 16/06/2009
Launched last November by food and farming charity Sustain, the Real Bread Campaign is now celebrating securing a grant from the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme.

Response to FSA announcement on food labelling - Children’s Food Campaign: 06/05/2009
This independent research confirms that the public want food labelling with traffic light colours

The Real Bread Campaign Demands An End To Unlabelled Enzymes In Bread - Real Bread Campaign: 06/05/2009
In an email to a concerned member of the public, Gordon Polson, Director of The Federation of Bakers, has explained his initial failure to respond to a letter from the Real Bread Campaign and the Real Food Festival about unlabelled processing aids* by saying “We did not reply because we could not stop using them which they know.”

Junk food babies: cheeseburgers and chocolate biscuits healthier than baby food - Children’s Food Campaign: 04/05/2009
New research has exposed the poor nutritional quality of many foods marketed for babies and young children.

Real Bread Campaign and the Real Food Festival to stick one on the Big Bakers - Real Bread Campaign: 20/04/2009
Stick One on 'em! - urging the UK's industrial bakers to come clean about the use and labelling of hidden processing aids in this press release.

Children’s Food Campaign slams Nestlé’s refusal to change unhealthy cereal products - Children’s Food Campaign: 15/04/2009
Campaigners are appalled by Nestlé’s statement yesterday on industry news website Food and Drink Europe that it will not ditch many of its unhealthiest cereals.

Call to spades for UK’s local food movement - Local Action on Food: 30/03/2009
Sustain launch new network and magazine to help communities to take back control of their food.

Children’s Food Campaign asks FSA: don't expose children to even more advertising for sugary cereals and salty crisps - Children’s Food Campaign: 23/03/2009
The Children’s Food Campaign welcomed today’s recommendation to the FSA Board not to change the nutrient profiling model used to decide which foods are healthy or not.

London's food creates more greenhouse gas than all London's households - Farming & Trade Project: 05/02/2009
A Greater London Authority report on greenhouse gas emissions finds that food consumption in the capital accounts for 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year.

Last updated: 05/02/2009