Press Release
10 June 2009
Food retailers committed to health? FPH response
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published a report detailing what its food retailing members are doing to respond to customer demand for healthier diet choices.
British Retailing: A Commitment to Health shows what kind of progress has been made since the last report three years ago and assesses businesses including Asda, Boots, Burger King, The Co-operative Group, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, McDonald's, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.
Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, President of Faculty of Public Health, says: "FPH welcomes the real changes that some retailers have made. But there is still quite a way to go in helping the nation eat more healthily. Children and adults still consume about twice as much salt and saturated fat as they actually need. We urge consumers to encourage the retail industry's further efforts by choosing healthier options whenever they shop."
The full report is available at www.brc.org.uk/downloads/british_retailing_a_commitment_to_health.pdf
For media enquiries or interview requests, please contact FPH Press Officer Suvi Kingsley on 020 7935 3115 / suvikingsley@fph.org.uk.
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