In a presentation to the UK government’s recently formed Nutrition Forum, Bill Moyes, director general of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), set out the food retail sector’s contribution to raising standards of diet, and called on the government to ensure that it takes a strong lead on changing consumers’ attitudes to diet.
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The Nutrition Forum was created to bring together key stakeholders in nutrition to allow for an exchange of views and information. It is also aims to assist the FSA, the Department of Health and other government departments develop and implement nutrition policies through regular feedback.
The food retail sector has made an important contribution to raising standards of diet over recent years. The presentation demonstrated how own brand retailers were providing well-labelled products that increased the profile of healthy eating as well as making good diets accessible to all groups.
Encouraging forum members to look beyond the food industry for ways of improving the nation’s diet. Moyes said: “Government needs to take a strong lead in changing consumer attitudes to public health. Once that demand has been created, retailers will respond.
“People are more conscious of healthy living than they were ten years ago and retailers have played a part in that. To succeed in future, the whole food industry and the government need to work together to build on the successes of the past.”
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