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Overweight people ‘less likely than average to consume soft drinks’
Despite a difficult year for the soft drinks industry, the overall retail value of the industry rose by 3.3 per cent in 2012, to nearly £15 billion. According to the 2013 Soft Drinks Report, soft drinks are consumed in more than 99 per cent of households. Soft drinks containing added sugar made up 39 per
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Salt levels slashed in shop bread
Supermarket bread contains 20 per cent less salt than it did a decade ago, according to new research. Bread is a major source of salt in the diet, providing almost a fifth of the total derived from processed foods. The recommended daily intake for UK adults is a maximum of 6g, compared with the current
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Aspartame ‘poses no toxicity concern’
EFSA opinion on artificial the sweetener aspartame says ‘it poses no toxicity concern for consumers at current levels’.
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One-fifth of shoppers ‘rarely or never read food labels’
Just nine per cent of UK shoppers always read the ingredients label on their food shopping. That’s the finding of new research by Canadean Consumer, which also reveals that while 32 per cent of consumers ‘often’ read the ingredients list, 21 per cent ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ read the ingredients. This, says the market research company,
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Scientists question validity of GM cancer study
Top scientists have called into question the credibility of a study suggesting that GM maize can cause cancer in rats. Rodents fed a lifelong diet of a common strain of GM corn developed breast tumours and suffered damage to their livers and kidneys, according to a team from the University of Caen. However, others said
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Health claims regulation ‘a new dawn’ says FAIA boss
Today’s publication of Commission Regulation EU 432/2012 establishing a list of permitted health claims on food (other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children’s development and health) has been declared ‘a new dawn for the functional food industry’ by Nigel Baldwin, Chairman of the Food Additives & Ingredients Association (FAIA.)
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Acrylamide levels ‘do not increase concern about human health’
A new Food Standards Agency (FSA) study shows an upward trend in acrylamide levels in processed cereal based baby foods (excluding rusks) but a reduction in other products, such as pre-cooked French fries, potato products for home cooking and bread.
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Soft drinks giants change manufacturing process to avoid ‘unfounded health warning’
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle which they say is ‘scientifically unfounded’. The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) – a chemical that California has added to its
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Vitamin D deficiency a ‘major problem’
A quarter of all toddlers in the UK are lacking Vitamin D, according to new research. A recommendation that all children under five should take Vitamin D supplements, 74 per cent of parents know nothing about the guidelines. And more than half of health professionals are also unaware of them. Dr Benjamin Jacobs, consultant paediatrician
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