News article
10 October 2019
FDF Response to Chief Medical Officer Report on Childhood Obesity
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Kate Halliwell, FDF Head of UK Diet and Health Policy said:
“UK food and drink manufacturers are working hard to implement what has already
been asked
of them by Government in three chapters of a Childhood Obesity Plan published
in
just three years.
"FDF member companies are committing time and resource to deliver the
Government's
various reformulation programmes - cutting salt, sugars and calories. In fact,
FDF members are selling
57.3 million fewer kilograms of sugars and 1 trillion fewer calories than they
were back in 2015. As Public
Health England acknowledge, reformulating products takes time, and we must
always take the consumer
with us. We want government to support us in this work and not introduce
punitive measures which
might hinder it.
"We agree more needs to be done to tackle obesity, and welcome the report's
clear steer that
everyone needs to play their part, including schools, local councils and the
NHS. Manufacturers alone
will not solve this. We believe money should be put behind specific, targeted
measures for those most
affected by the burden of obesity."
More Information
Contact Megan Bevan, Corporate Affairs Division, at: Megan.Bevan@fdf.org.uk, or 07946 340 998.
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