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Given the current pressure being put on the UK food industry to soft-pedal junk food and promote sensible alternatives, what was Shropshire Trading Standards doing taking Tesco to court over…

In 2002, the Food Standards Agency published food labelling Guidance on how to compliantly use terms like ‘traditional’ ‘original’ and ‘pure’. A new FSA survey suggests the industry still has…

Amidst the current clamour for something to be done about UK obesity, there has been yet another call for greater curbs on food advertising. We report on this and the…

The end of the road for ‘High fibre’, ‘halves your calorie intake’, ‘helps keep your body feeling good’ and ‘folate may help normalise plasma homocysteine levels’? Maybe, courtesy of a…

After four years, Parma ham producers finally got a result in their battle against Asda’s sale of Parma ham which was not sliced and packaged in the Parma region. But…

In the dark corridors of the EU Customs Committee a grim battle is being fought for the right to call a sauce a sauce.   Topic:  Food Where:  Brussels Who:  The…

UK advertisers still get into a pickle over “environmentally friendly” organic food claims.   Topic: FoodWho: The Committee of Advertising Practice (“CAP”)When: July 2001Where: London What happened: The CAP, which…