UK regulatory ahead to enforce healthy food

Unveiled on 3 July, the Department of Health and Social Care’s new blueprint for the nation's wellbeing includes a pledge to “end the obesity epidemic”. Crucially for hospitality, the plan proposes a series of measures that could directly affect operators, including mandatory reporting of healthy food sales by large food sector businesses, an overhaul of the soft drinks industry levy to encourage reformulation, and a ban on the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under 16s.

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The government said it intends to use the new reporting system to “set new mandatory targets on the average healthiness of sales” across the food industry. Responding to the announcement, UK Hospitality sector highlighted that food service businesses are already making “significant investments in menu development and reformulation”, offering more nutritious options and providing clear nutritional information to help customers make informed choices.

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