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News: Hospital food is a recipe for disaster

The new guidelines are pathetic. Patients deserve so much better than plastic containers filled with sweaty cheese, dabs of marge and unidentifiable grey mush
Better Hospital Food | Monday 2 March 2015

News: WHO (Europe) proposes new nutrient profling model

The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a nutrient profiling tool to help European member states that wish to restrict marketing of certain foods to children. Applying the nutrient profile model to confectionery would not allow its marketing to kids. But it will be left to member states to take action, through voluntary of statutory measures, according to their preferences. Currently the lack of such an agreed EU-wide nutrient profiling model is a huge gap in existing regulation and affects the ability of countries to implement effective rules to tackle the marketing of high fat, salt, sugar food.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 27 February 2015

News: Private Members' Bill on Sugar in Food and Drink

Geraint Davies MP's Private Members' Bill on Sugar in Food and Drinks (Targets, Labelling and Advertising) is scheduled to have a Second Reading in the House of Commons. The Bill would require the Secretary of State to set targets for sugar content in food and drinks; to provide that sugar content on food and drink labelling be represented in terms of the number of teaspoonfuls of sugar; to provide for standards of information provision in advertising of food and drinks; and for connected purposes. Due to parliamentary scheduling and procedures, this is likely to be as far as the Bill gets this time. We hope that what this Bill is trying to achieve may meet with more success in the next Parliament. See Sustain's work on sugary drinks
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 27 February 2015

News: Energy drinks fuel the obesity epidemic

Action on Sugar have found "excessive and worryingly high levels of added sugars" in so called ‘energy’ drinks, which are consumed inappropriately every day. Children's Food Campaign's reaction to the findings: "Energy drinks are the Wild West of the soft drinks industry: often shockingly and unnecessarily high in sugar and caffeine, marketed heavily to older children and teenagers, using teen sports stars to promote their brands, and seemingly operating outside of the government’s public health Responsibility Deal. We call for a sugary drinks duty, which could be part of a suite of measures needed to curb the consumption of energy drinks and tackle obesity and diet-related ill health." Further coverage on Daily Mail, BBC and The Grocer websites.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 27 February 2015

News: Thousands set to get growing for the Big Dig Day 2015

Sustain's Big Dig Day 2015 takes place on 21 March 2015, and is set to involve thousands of people across the UK growing their own food
Good to Grow | Thursday 26 February 2015

News: Harrison Catering Services pledge: Sustainable fish for the future

Top contract caterer Harrison Catering Services have committed to serving only demonstrably sustainable fish across their 270 UK locations. Their Sustainable Fish Cities pledge will affect the 100,000 meals they cook and serve each day to schoolchildren, students and office workers.
Sustainable Fish | Wednesday 18 February 2015

News: Health campaigners angry as review fails to stop online junk food ads targeting children

Children's Food Campaign responds to Committees on Advertising Practice review of online marketing rules
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 17 February 2015

Pages: Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics

The Alliance is a coalition of health, medical, environmental and animal welfare groups campaigning to stop the overuse of antibiotics in animal farming.
Save Our Antibiotics

Pages: Children's Health Fund

The Children's Health Fund (CHF) was set up by Jamie Oliver and Sustain in August 2015. The aim is to get restaurants and cafes to volunteer to put a 10p sugary drinks levy on non-alcoholic soft drinks on their menu with added sugar.
Children's Health Fund

News: New EU report reveals huge scale of antibiotic overuse in farming

A new EU report shows for the first time that farm animals account for about two thirds of all antibiotics used in 26 European countries. The joint report by the EU Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control showed that countries that use higher levels of some antibiotics in animals have higher levels of antibiotic resistance in certain bacteria from humans. Contact Vicki@sustainweb.org for full media release. Sustain is part of the Alliance to Save Our Antiobiotics
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 6 February 2015