Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Environment
Health & Wellbeing
Environment FAQs
What is the food industry doing about waste?
Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill is a priority for FDF. In
particular FDF's Five-Fold Environmental Ambition includes an aspiration for
FDF members
to send zero food and packaging waste from their sites to landfill from 2015.
More information on waste reduction.
View our Five-Fold Environmental Ambition: Waste: promoting resource efficiency
Health & Wellbeing FAQs
How are you making products healthier?
Our members have been voluntarily embracing this particular challenge for a
number of years, and they are now leading the way when it comes to the
reformulation
of popular products – meeting consumer concerns about health in a way that
doesn't make any compromises on taste.
Read more in our report: Our recipe for change.
What does GDA stand for?
GDA stands for Guideline Daily Amount (GDAs)and is the recommended amount of
specific
nutrients an adult should consume each day.
More information about GDAs and GDA labels is available from www.gdalabel.org.uk.