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Reports: Good Food at Work

How your organisation can improve the food within your office environment, to benefit staff, and help create a more sustainable food and farming system fit for the future.
Sustain | Monday 9 March 2015

News: Glasgow and Edinburgh up the ante in tackling food poverty

Council leaders, Andrew Burns and Gordon Matheson, signed a progressive pledge in support of the Church of Scotland's 'Food Justice Movement', to tackle food poverty in their cities.As well as seeking changes on their home turf and in Scottish Government, they are encouraging other parts of the UK to match their commitments and develop their own plans to tackle the causes of food poverty. Sustain will be launching a new camapign on food poverty in Spring 2015.
Sustain | Friday 6 March 2015

News: Two-thirds of people surveyed want junk food TV adverts banned before 9pm

Child health should be election issue, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). It said there was large public support for junk food advertising bans, cooking lessons in school and lowering speed limits. [BBC] The survey results have been cleverly displayed in a series of images on Buzzfeed. The RCPCH has made a series of policy recommendations ahead of the next general election aimed at improving children's health - for more details see their 'Vision 2015' document.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 6 March 2015

News: Jamie Oliver takes on TTIP trade deal over food

Jamie Oliver has stepped in to the fray over the threat posed to food standards by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which he believes will lower standards such as getting around bans imposed by the EU on putting growth hormoes and pesticides in meat, as the same standards dont apply in the US.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 6 March 2015

News: Infected chickens across Europe causing concern

EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority) and the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) have raised concerns about anti-microbial resistance in bacteria found in chicken across Europe. Their latest report found that campylobacter is becoming resistant to front-line drugs, limiting treatment options for some of the most common food-borne infections.See Sustain's work with the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics here.
Sustain | Wednesday 4 March 2015

News: FSA Campylobacter Survey shows 73% of retailed raw chicken tested positive

The Food Standards Agency has published the latest set of results in its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens. Results so far show that 73% of chickens tested positive for campylobacter, with 19% testing positive for campylobacter within the highest band of contamination. The data show variation between retailers but the FSA said none of them is meeting the target for reducing campylobacter. See Sustain's work with the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics.
Sustain | Wednesday 4 March 2015

News: Growing for Health and Happiness Report

Garden Organic has released a report 'Growing for Health and Happiness' showing the physical and mental health benefits for people who start growing their own food with the support of the Master Gardener Programme. Research conducted by Coventry University showed essential health impacts for participants as well as significant social and environmental benefits. See also Sustain's work with Garden Organic on the national project Growing Health.
Sustain | Wednesday 4 March 2015

News: FAO says Agriculture Must Change

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Jose Graziano da Silva, has said that the current model of agricultural production is not suitable for the challenges of the 21st century. While the numbers of chronically hungry have reduced, 805 million people still go without enough to eat on a regular basis. This is happening, da Silva said, even though the world produces enough food to feed everyone. "We need a paradigm shift. Food systems need to be more sustainable, inclusive and resilient" he added.
Sustain | Wednesday 4 March 2015

News: My recipe to make our sickening hospital food edible again: Scrambled egg on toast, vegetable soup and fishcakes

Just imagine: you’re in hospital recovering from an operation. Your appetite is returning and you’re looking forward to nothing more complicated than a bowl of hot, tasty soup.
Better Hospital Food | Tuesday 3 March 2015

News: Hospital catering reforms are 'hopelessly weak', says Prue Leith

Food writer says NHS catering contract changes due next month are ‘feeble’ and will not eradicate poor quality food and wastage in hospitals
Better Hospital Food | Monday 2 March 2015