c The SoIl AnocI3~n e~sts to tBSpoundaTth deelDp and fraquoomot~ Itgtwnilbe rei(I1ICJ1 If1ips ooWtiIt1 tilE 1jL]( planu1rwnals peQ

pie and 100 blt)ltplIe1I1 or(jer 10 prodoce htllttrv 1000 alll Ofhe JlrOOUC(5 wtJile pro tedl~ aM enlarong thE enliroomant

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FOOD COMMISSION

Iht Food Cnm~fllS Brllyenl ieadi~ ttJImiddot 1ITIef watchdog ~ food We ilIe rnepBl Ce11t of rnWily ad QOo(JmHI1l anrI relY OIl MSCtlpOOm dorollOlls tni grants hJr au llJIdintl We aITIlO ptowie mdrrendrntt~ 16Se3fthed rrfarma1Iln II1 he moo VIf ear ID IriSlIa goQd QUaIt1 loo to 1111

rhe food QrrtnlSsiDf1 ResuCfl Chant aims 10 leae dl tuatrt and Jdvarlce ptbIic eUUCJlun ihlouJl research ediJallI1llrJ the PfOAVlhOfl of OOlff QljlIlry load

Ctt4ecrDl Soo DlitJ atxl TII1 (Itmell1 InfOlffl8tOf1 Md Atlmttl OHrrer Ma-y 1M1itillg Subsa~ middot ~Toi~ rllOd JIradiaooo Cemp8rr artirer 8Iid fICC I1CtwrJttco t)fclr)IJror 1JlttlO Omke

This month sees the start of the lale 1m And it is agoodtime to celebmte TIle fi rsl Organic Harvest in this counlIi was aweal sucshy

cess (Sf1 iJlRl 6) lII] dips t Pltriod o( remarkable chang Mlo five years ago would hal expected lohn Gummer Conserlativc Secretary of Stat for Ihe Environment to launch such an evenl) And with Friends of lh~ Earth now moving into ~ll organic camp (paRe 23) and birrllife OrgdII

isatiuns becoming more cncemed (lIe 6) it is increasingly plausible Lhat we mayyet reach the target of 20 IJ(r c~nl organic by the year mlO

Even more success was celebrallfi when the UK Govenllnent collced ed defeat at Ille Council of MinisLers mleling in Deltembcr and accepted a European ban on the mnk-boosUng honnone Bovine SomatotropiJ] (IgtSTJ until the year 2) (see opposite) The national launch of tbe camshypaign against BST began exactlyseven years ago ililhi lIlllgazine - 71fe Food Magazines very first issue f turell the scandal of sccrrt SST trials and Ill unJlrrcl~dtgtnted mixing of BST-produced milk into the nations regshyular milk suPP~

Meanwhile tile plight oflol illcome famili (s is no longer dismisltedby tile Government and this winter sees a Departm~nt IllHealtMuDdl-d pack on tackling povertv and diel plllJlishedlJy U National Food Alliance (page 20) Supennarkets are falling over themselves to 311roct the costshyconscious shoplXr - tlltough aFood Commission SUrly finds tIley ore promoting a diel (ull of falty sweet products but shorl o( fresh fruit atld veg (~ page I I)

There is further conftnnatioilihat Intit and vegetablelt pia) an imporshy~tnt role in preventing cancer ~lltlge 8) and tile Governments COMA reporl (page 4) urges us to eat more Yet an incredible 21 per Ctnt of English families boug ht no (mil at all during 1992 It is ti llle snPltnnarshykelSoadvertisers and the Govenllncllt worked togellier to increase our eonsumplion of these vital foods

ADVERllSlNG POUCY nle promotion of commercial producls in this magazine is done only by the Soil Association not Ihe Food Commission For details on how to ailvertise or (Ommenis on the aivertiltements please contact TOll) ~I uir

on 0272-290661

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The Food MfllJatlllt L3 pulii3kal quartertp nv The FODrj -C4JnlLlJSgOtlILll l td Tht1I Fro 5shy11 WorShlll)tref3L lm1M EC2A 2Bft t-I 071 middot 628 m4 fIJI 011628 osn TIasdrtlCmJooshyMarcil 1995 the om year dpltltttlll Issue r() L8 ISSN 0953--hllQ7

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l trl ~IPOS e(Peised In tn~ lTliIgame afll Jv necessanl~ hose lt1 MIiI1 til food CnrTrlISlOlI 01 ~ $(II As~IlOmon

News Soya milk sHogen 3

SST baMed 10 2000 3

Now DdvertislIIg rules 4

COMA hear report 4

SWts olilhe clteeko 4

EC wearing dllettlle 5 Hlpo-allelgentc milks 5

OrganiCS glt1od for brrds 6

Organic Harvest 6

Farm CClnscrvatlQn aW31ds 6 Or9o lood awalds 1994 7

Woodmart ks rsc credit 10

food lidlillMln o ilictSeo 10

Diet and health ProJesso[ Poner explains how

vegetables fight cancer 8middot9

Checkout CUlilliee lood promols

POQ health t1-13 LDopy labels 14-15

fast lood When Ihe chIPS

are down 16 fats eadlng confusion 11

Global letter CalifI subban I~rmg 19

Food and society Tackling poverty and diet 20-21

National Food Alliance News 22

Agriculture foE Cttalle Seon

talks 10 1m SA 13 CotmllY~d cooelVatioo

green (X mean 23

Feedback 2~

Book reviews 24middot25

Soil Association News New stall obrlUilTV

locat group news 27

Backbites 28

bull Ccuer jlICure frum Michael AbemlnS b~ From Tho = fil1fh ilramBS 3110 Hud 1993

news

BST banned until next centuryNew Zealand researchquestions safetyof hormones in soya baby milks he Food Corrmission h reelYed shydenee from New Zeotand that 101 middot mula rroilts iur bab1es conlar1 IIMlIs 01 dlemills koov as plytoesuogens wI1Ich he rosearcher say JIIIe 1lUrl babies the equivalent of several contrashy4tMl honnOAl paI1s a oay The reseorch has been wdelV reJl(ll1ed III the New Zealand press wnh calls tCJ

soya formUae to be 11lt1 lrom Sille In 1992 me UK goos egtperl Corm1iHee 011 Toxlri1y recomshymended thai I of pIlyloeslmgens in biliJy mrlks and GtI1ef srya foods Illr dlldren should be)ysed as paltI

01 n rVIeW 01 natural 101 loads Yet 1Wltl f laler thaI eseardl has nat OOed The Ministry 01 AlfirulltOe Rshlnes and Food wid lhe Food COOlmisslln 11 IS on prill(shyrty irsl aM we hope the wortlt wrI stall in 1995 We eeplrtg an open rmd and aclose walCh on tlti tloJgh we ara not llWare 01 any reports al adernn effects

fhyoestrugens ar11Uld ~ many plants Includrlg wva and can act i1e weak tunan oestrogens the human oorIi They are generaly IloJght to ha a JlI0lectMt ro~ agarnsl ilmaSI cancer but tlteil fXltennal eHeelS baboes is Iltrliely IJ1kmwn RrlQlnt msearch has shown lhal ph~oolIoshy

gons from foods can affect me menstrual titles af women and eodd declease fertllrty There IS also much long stanlklg erdence Itrat plytoestromiddot gao are IOXIC to animals aM can calSe JeIlroouelNe disOIder sand inter middot tit In rIiIly speaes Irdldlng hoop rars llgers nltr1 brrds Oeslrogoll-iie fXlllumts iI diinkl1g water and rho elNtOl1ment are ais( raIsing ctnerru doIl lhey could be linked to lho easshylog rnltidence of COlalrsabrolmal sexshyraI degteIopmcnt am rncreasing fIIenilimiddot ty In mon One restoer in tillS freid [lI RIChard Sharpe of the MRC

lleprodOCI BOogy Um (jlnOOlgh recommends carrOOll We JUSI dOIll Irnow enoogh aboot lhe effects of oesrogergt1(pe chemicals On the _I 0jlIlg foetus and feW bom baIlies ThsrafOle Iwodd recorMleOO tt)1 llOSUTU to oestrogens from whale source shluld be kepI 1o amirwnum esoecially dumg cilildhood

Tho New Zealand researcherS meashyslled ptrytoesOogenS 1nfaSltJV lsnrnl and PtOLSoilee soya 1 forrrulasable Nw Zealand and cal~lshyad that tre biological effed of IhelshyeIs 01 phyloeSIJogens 1lICilliv shysumed Iy a baby would be 100 Urnes 1eatel than the omOlJ1I 01 nalLOai oestrogen lhe ctwd Igtooid eee rom breasl milk ThOY mh estJnate IIlaI IIos is equrvalel11 00) Ilhliur Ilhl basis to gmg new IxIn baby SBYllml txaI cootrnctl pills aday

lhe Food CoollT1ssioo 1m ked comporia su~1)o1g baby rrilks in tre UK to proIIide inloltmatillll on 1 01 phyloeslrtlgB k we went 10 JlIess only one company ~th tocIr es SMA WsoI romll was able 10 prlMtle lhe Food Commlm wrth 1igLlteS SMA 11 the Food Commn ilJr lorrrua CIlanl

no mere tim ZIZS 1CiVrnlloi ~ strtlgBnsl rhe rOCtlnSUl1lled prod Thi apr-gt 10 be approllttl11a1l1y twoshyttds of me 1IMlIs11Uld New Zealand fll11Tlks

The baby rroIlt rompanies tmOO associalion the klfonl and DoelltICs Food AssociaIiOIl was lJiable 10 sUJljlly us th any olh figures of UK prodmiddot uclS But SJ)Okesmman did suggesl Ilrot at prod wDIlld conial1 bloodiy srml~rall1lUnlgt as she thorJ~t lhat co all ~tu soya from the same SUpl She added thlI levels cruld ~uctlB accCJding 10 seasonal and other 611Y1r(X1Tlental factors

Soya-based Infant frnnuls were

The genellcally engW1eered rrolkshybooslltlg hormone BoVI Somalotropln IBS) IS 10 be baMed In

lhe European Union unJl January 1 lOOO The Agriculture MOlISlers mel ~ n December and with one exception agleed 10 exrltr1 the momlOOIl1l

The only Minister voung lor an Immedlale hftrng of the ban was the UKs WlIam Waldegrave who had prevu]luslV InfC)Ined COflSUmer groups thaI he would vote for Iegalrsll1g BST on the grounds that Ihef8 was no scimiddot entific lustlflOltion for (II ban He is caughr between Ihe companies -Monsamo and Eir lily who argue they have nght to mar1ltel animal phmaceutical thaI sare ami eHeclive and conSIJTu~r and antmal nghls gloups who are unhappy witlt OVIdenre tltal the drug leads ro drsshyuessed anunafs and ] riilsoo Inclshydeoca of mastltls

Oalry lrade ocgamsaltOls are also deeoly unhaPlV W1t1t lire damage thaI SST couid do 10 the Illtage of milk as a clean frB5lt pO~ uCldolt hdS nor been proressed or tampered th A FarmlifsWkiy sur middot vey of 500 darry famters lound 79

I per cent agalnsltho

Ircensrng of BST Only 16 per cent were actually in lava of icensing and of these only two in lille said they might use rhe product ~ was alIIlable

fhe EU ban has allowed a smatl loopllole In the fOlm of conuooeO SIgtshyenlrfit ulls p tnals ha been held al secret loeatrOlls and the mk hom SST-trealed cows has beon allowed litO the national supply MAFF hove not IOOlCatoo whelhel lhe same COIldroons wll aPlly

The EU deCISIOn Will nol prCV9nt Ihe ImpOllaliOll 01 dairy JlIoducts from BST-treated COIVS from outside Ihe EU BST has be hcensed 10lt use SWlee to motOnflfl of as~ I als lithe USA

bull Ileilipound SST Cone amp-11 W Seer london ECtA ZIIH Irol 11171 middot638 06061

dBeloped ~rlty year ago lor bottle fed lllfantswho are Intolfallt to cows milk plolem andIllr infants who Iocmiddot tose IntolerunL They are also used by vegans ond some elhoc gUltJps vshshyirg 10 YOld arwnal products Sales are worllr nearly pound9 rriIion a yelrom Ih rhr perc1 of babies in the UK who lWe fed soya-lomUa tIt ailout 85 of sales on ~IICJl AJIhoujt lhey Ole usad fol babiesWltlt alergy 10 cows milk proWcts soya fOll1lulas themselves are knOMl to catl5e r~

gies The ew yavernment COMA weaning report recommonls lhal soya lmart fumUls shoUd not be a first chace unless mer ~ a specific mason for exdudi1g cows miIir from the diet

fur also warns 01 dangers to dental heal Ias laclose Imilk sugaollS placed In all brands by Othel sugars srdl as gbose sucrose ona maltose whICh are eOltllgent Phytates in Olayalso m ibir the absorption of von ZIle and calcium though produclS are fOMmed

Tho Food Comrrissltoo II be grog IWf and the 1JefD~1 01 Health 10 cooSlder tile New Zeamd repoI1 arcj 10 enSIJre lhal the omcfed leseanIt

IS 9r urgenl poomy

bull TIro TY I Sorfgtons ani_ Prrxgtxn bmes IIF JamBs VA _OJ r_~k MGAiltlltialtI ~7~nrJ f994

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New advertising rules get critical welcome

COMA resists industry lobby

The Nat1 Food Alliarlte and the FltJOd UlTVlllSSJIlI1 have IJIfn aattlcal vme to Independent TelegtisJOO ComJrlSSlOn IITC) proposals f new s lor food and slimming adwJ1JSeshymenls The NatJ()nBi Food AInc8 wtch has Ileen cafl1llrgnlng folt arnsrg 10 SlJPI(O hllto eamg rather than urdcrmine 11 says the proshyposals are step the ngtt dJrcCtillfl but fal shon 01 COMLI11e1 and public health expectations

The new rules II ball atNeruseshyments that encolRge or condone axeeSSM CSlJmpuon of a food 01 disparage good JOJIntionaI practice Advert for products sold as aid 10 gtIImm1Il wil De baIlned when chIshyd are ilely ro De watciwlg The ITC has acknowledged me health If14Ilica - for food adwJ11Sl11g d Is pltllpo51ng a new SectlOO of the code sDeafically 00 lood atMlrtlsing

The pfllIlosals IlgIttDll existing flES on dental health - adVOOJsampshyments mlJSl nol eoC(OjraQe chllien 10 eal ncqueody througtolt1 the day 10 coosume food Il( donk near bedtime PI wh Ine ale no ImpilCashynons fer dentil hygiene leg mmeral w) ASlTengtheg of the CQde

on genelalised heallll claims IS alSO nroposed

The new rules rnclude sevelal that accord with NfA remmrneodaoons put to the ITC earli tl1~ year and falshylow the NutJltion Taslc Forces nlclt)rr mendaoon that advertiSing regulatory OOds shotAd reorew Ihei codesof aclICe In the Ight of the Health of the Natiort saidSuc Oihb Food UrmllSSIort co-dlJeCtor and NFA ploshyeel office The NfA ~ disaJlllOOied by the trnned scope of the ITCrMeY

- Its failure 10 address concerns aboul Ihe mlslcadllg use of omagesof sport and fitness and the refusal by the ITe 10 i0oilt al the cLiaIlie pattern of arMoniSflIl to chlldflltt

The dominance of fatty and SUlJiWV foods mactvertJSerllEnts to c~ren Isee iSSlO 271 has causeoJ crnems fll( Idrs diets 11m NFA has proshyposed thalfillty an~ sugary foods shwld nol be advltlr1ised Jlen 1a1JO mbes of cnlldr Me watcoog and that IVavs should be found to cwr age arMortig With me posilrve oollillon messages The new rules are bllfy 10 be pr1llisllld In earty 1995

- TTUt wdmnattm The NFA -Iroect 071-618 22

No sweets at checkout say parents

AGALLUP IIV lias flkJnd that 87 per Ceflt of mum anlt 74 pOI c1 of lads dont want swaets ll00 chocoshylates at supelffialkel cheeleouts Over 60 per cenl of parenls said the displays courege Iheir chlldrcn to presSlJllse them Into mag unplaMed purcnases Neally half of hesl paents say lhe-I usualiv glve11 d buy sweets 0lt chocolale kom the checkout The figure is Iligtelt IOf

rents from soclill goups 0 and E wttrdl refiects the paltem of dental disease the UK

The Cilock Sweet Off lhe

Supermarket power Checkoul CampailJl1 wnch cOffmis shysinned lhe surley j mMi10fing local storesand pharmarc1eS and WI be publIShing a lea[Us table 01 good and bad pl3CtlCe eru1y in the new Vilal February 2WIll see a national Action Day when stOlas wnh no conlecshy~ooelty at the checkout Will be preshysented wilh an Award 01 Good flacllCe anlt those conllrlllng to d play SMoelS WIlIIle lobbied 10 prOVIde sweelfr toutes mro)h lhe checiDul

bull For t-1IU1ef information- 10M Smealon 081-7708311

4 bull ll Eanh Ii Tho food Mag Jn-Mirch 1995

The governments new COMA Ioon on lIIel and hem disease has Deen welcomed as the most rnpDf1aol leport 011 tIIet and hearth In the last ten VealS by the Nalional Food Alliance The fIIJOI1 - mNona AspocIs of CarrJovBscu81 OIsiNJse by tho iJopnmfllt of Hbullbulllths Committee on Ihe Mad Aspects on Food Policy ICOMA) - translates scientiht tefmioology Int() Pain EngIh d prades praollCal adce 00 a healthy d

The repon caused clashes between governml1t and the food dlJstry when rt was leaked 10 lhe press last summer (see iSsue 27) Manufacturers of fany and sugary foods iludng Cadbury SchwePles

Nutrition awards The Carol Walker TruSI held rt 6th annual awrds CIlremony lasl NOIIlrrber loIloYled by Ihe 51 1tUle trom Plol Ponel lsee pages Band 9) The 0VltlfltIi1 -d WlI1llf WiJS June Sltalborougjl mlhe Nauon1 Associalioo 01 Teachets 01 Home Ewnorroos amp1ethnology foe hr carnpalJl110 keep home economics and cooking on the school CUlriocl

Addiuonal Dwards vent to bull IoI1iI Smeaton Iconsumr award)

for Ih6 Chuck SMoets off the Cileckout campatgn

bull Joseplline Frrlev lindusuy award) for Green and Blacks ronman-

The IDod ItaiI giants dol11ln t the food SySt6m Now new TOpon ask whal needs to Ile done about the sUPIImar1ltels er Off QUI ITDleys by 11m Lang and Hugh Raven OUtlines rrlanv areas of COOCern (rom competishytion POiCY 10 packltgtglng and lawn planshy009

The subjecl wiI also De exolored at

bull onecIay seffil1ar for NGOs and public

Mars Tate amplyle ald Unrted BrSCllItS demanded a prMlte meetrng With the JlU1lor health minister 11 abid to have the reports recommendshylIOns watered down 8uI on Ih lS occaSlOn tho govmnmllnl stoOlti firm

Unitod SscurtS - tradtIOnally one of the unservatNopanys rrgtOslloyal corporale dOlt1ors - Are expected to cease thelf poillical donalJOOS )992 United BISCuits were Ihe largesl sll1gle oonOI 1pound 1300(0) 10 T0fY IuOOs The company ~s 000 of __llbal successfully lobbled the lJOIemmenl to scrap the London IoIry ban

bull Departmenl of tfealth MJtrrtJof181 Asllaquo1$ 01 CrlJOvlrtWlm OtteA HMSO pound1000

tally friendly orgafllC chocolate lall snortllSled products were organtc)

bull PlOfesSOf DaVid Barler fscienc award) lorhiS wOIk on the eally delemullImts of III hbullbulllth

bull Sophie GnQSfln [media award] for the Eat Yoor Geens ses

bull Or Susan Marun Ispecill omrdl fo SllfVlce on rhe Oepanment 01 Health Nuuit)ort Test Fllfce

bull Jody Stookey NIIlS Ihllt Yfa(s Carahn Walkelt SlorJent bursmy

bull Shavesh Katana wlnlhis yeas Caroline Walker essay pOle

bull Fru more ootatls of 1M WOIk of tt1e CalolIne Wallaquo~ rrus COfitacl them at 6 Alddy ~d VIIJslOlldo Wit tBP

t6lesl grOUlls 10 be h1d on febtuary t5 In London whch IS being JOmtly orgased ~v the SAfE Alliance and the Centre for Food PolICy at Thames Va~ USlty For IlIIhel detais tact Vrly Him on 071-823 gt660

bull Off our t1tJiJta~7 by Hugh Rawn and rOIl lang ~ PUUhsled by IPP~ 30-32

tlJampton SIJ9C1 loridon WC2E 7RA price [4 95 r plipl

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New advertising rules get critical welcome

COMA resists industry lobby

The Nat1 Food Alliarlte and the FltJOd UlTVlllSSJIlI1 have IJIfn aattlcal vme to Independent TelegtisJOO ComJrlSSlOn IITC) proposals f new s lor food and slimming adwJ1JSeshymenls The NatJ()nBi Food AInc8 wtch has Ileen cafl1llrgnlng folt arnsrg 10 SlJPI(O hllto eamg rather than urdcrmine 11 says the proshyposals are step the ngtt dJrcCtillfl but fal shon 01 COMLI11e1 and public health expectations

The new rules II ball atNeruseshyments that encolRge or condone axeeSSM CSlJmpuon of a food 01 disparage good JOJIntionaI practice Advert for products sold as aid 10 gtIImm1Il wil De baIlned when chIshyd are ilely ro De watciwlg The ITC has acknowledged me health If14Ilica - for food adwJ11Sl11g d Is pltllpo51ng a new SectlOO of the code sDeafically 00 lood atMlrtlsing

The pfllIlosals IlgIttDll existing flES on dental health - adVOOJsampshyments mlJSl nol eoC(OjraQe chllien 10 eal ncqueody througtolt1 the day 10 coosume food Il( donk near bedtime PI wh Ine ale no ImpilCashynons fer dentil hygiene leg mmeral w) ASlTengtheg of the CQde

on genelalised heallll claims IS alSO nroposed

The new rules rnclude sevelal that accord with NfA remmrneodaoons put to the ITC earli tl1~ year and falshylow the NutJltion Taslc Forces nlclt)rr mendaoon that advertiSing regulatory OOds shotAd reorew Ihei codesof aclICe In the Ight of the Health of the Natiort saidSuc Oihb Food UrmllSSIort co-dlJeCtor and NFA ploshyeel office The NfA ~ disaJlllOOied by the trnned scope of the ITCrMeY

- Its failure 10 address concerns aboul Ihe mlslcadllg use of omagesof sport and fitness and the refusal by the ITe 10 i0oilt al the cLiaIlie pattern of arMoniSflIl to chlldflltt

The dominance of fatty and SUlJiWV foods mactvertJSerllEnts to c~ren Isee iSSlO 271 has causeoJ crnems fll( Idrs diets 11m NFA has proshyposed thalfillty an~ sugary foods shwld nol be advltlr1ised Jlen 1a1JO mbes of cnlldr Me watcoog and that IVavs should be found to cwr age arMortig With me posilrve oollillon messages The new rules are bllfy 10 be pr1llisllld In earty 1995

- TTUt wdmnattm The NFA -Iroect 071-618 22

No sweets at checkout say parents

AGALLUP IIV lias flkJnd that 87 per Ceflt of mum anlt 74 pOI c1 of lads dont want swaets ll00 chocoshylates at supelffialkel cheeleouts Over 60 per cenl of parenls said the displays courege Iheir chlldrcn to presSlJllse them Into mag unplaMed purcnases Neally half of hesl paents say lhe-I usualiv glve11 d buy sweets 0lt chocolale kom the checkout The figure is Iligtelt IOf

rents from soclill goups 0 and E wttrdl refiects the paltem of dental disease the UK

The Cilock Sweet Off lhe

Supermarket power Checkoul CampailJl1 wnch cOffmis shysinned lhe surley j mMi10fing local storesand pharmarc1eS and WI be publIShing a lea[Us table 01 good and bad pl3CtlCe eru1y in the new Vilal February 2WIll see a national Action Day when stOlas wnh no conlecshy~ooelty at the checkout Will be preshysented wilh an Award 01 Good flacllCe anlt those conllrlllng to d play SMoelS WIlIIle lobbied 10 prOVIde sweelfr toutes mro)h lhe checiDul

bull For t-1IU1ef information- 10M Smealon 081-7708311

4 bull ll Eanh Ii Tho food Mag Jn-Mirch 1995

The governments new COMA Ioon on lIIel and hem disease has Deen welcomed as the most rnpDf1aol leport 011 tIIet and hearth In the last ten VealS by the Nalional Food Alliance The fIIJOI1 - mNona AspocIs of CarrJovBscu81 OIsiNJse by tho iJopnmfllt of Hbullbulllths Committee on Ihe Mad Aspects on Food Policy ICOMA) - translates scientiht tefmioology Int() Pain EngIh d prades praollCal adce 00 a healthy d

The repon caused clashes between governml1t and the food dlJstry when rt was leaked 10 lhe press last summer (see iSsue 27) Manufacturers of fany and sugary foods iludng Cadbury SchwePles

Nutrition awards The Carol Walker TruSI held rt 6th annual awrds CIlremony lasl NOIIlrrber loIloYled by Ihe 51 1tUle trom Plol Ponel lsee pages Band 9) The 0VltlfltIi1 -d WlI1llf WiJS June Sltalborougjl mlhe Nauon1 Associalioo 01 Teachets 01 Home Ewnorroos amp1ethnology foe hr carnpalJl110 keep home economics and cooking on the school CUlriocl

Addiuonal Dwards vent to bull IoI1iI Smeaton Iconsumr award)

for Ih6 Chuck SMoets off the Cileckout campatgn

bull Joseplline Frrlev lindusuy award) for Green and Blacks ronman-

The IDod ItaiI giants dol11ln t the food SySt6m Now new TOpon ask whal needs to Ile done about the sUPIImar1ltels er Off QUI ITDleys by 11m Lang and Hugh Raven OUtlines rrlanv areas of COOCern (rom competishytion POiCY 10 packltgtglng and lawn planshy009

The subjecl wiI also De exolored at

bull onecIay seffil1ar for NGOs and public

Mars Tate amplyle ald Unrted BrSCllItS demanded a prMlte meetrng With the JlU1lor health minister 11 abid to have the reports recommendshylIOns watered down 8uI on Ih lS occaSlOn tho govmnmllnl stoOlti firm

Unitod SscurtS - tradtIOnally one of the unservatNopanys rrgtOslloyal corporale dOlt1ors - Are expected to cease thelf poillical donalJOOS )992 United BISCuits were Ihe largesl sll1gle oonOI 1pound 1300(0) 10 T0fY IuOOs The company ~s 000 of __llbal successfully lobbled the lJOIemmenl to scrap the London IoIry ban

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tally friendly orgafllC chocolate lall snortllSled products were organtc)

bull PlOfesSOf DaVid Barler fscienc award) lorhiS wOIk on the eally delemullImts of III hbullbulllth

bull Sophie GnQSfln [media award] for the Eat Yoor Geens ses

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bull Jody Stookey NIIlS Ihllt Yfa(s Carahn Walkelt SlorJent bursmy

bull Shavesh Katana wlnlhis yeas Caroline Walker essay pOle

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t6lesl grOUlls 10 be h1d on febtuary t5 In London whch IS being JOmtly orgased ~v the SAfE Alliance and the Centre for Food PolICy at Thames Va~ USlty For IlIIhel detais tact Vrly Him on 071-823 gt660

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Nutrition news

New attack on EC weaning food directive AEufl)pean C(JJlmISS1Oll OreclMl on baby foods SpeCifying the contI 00 natule ollooos for babresacross the ElJlnpoanUllIOn hasbeen crmcised by consumer organisabOns for enshnnin bad commercial practoces and undermiddot irlg toughernatIOnal lawsOJ counmiddot lneS such as Oenmrfc

The Drecllye due to be ratified februalY appeals togobeyood the rec(JJlmendatloos 01 Ille en SClCntic Conee on Food by aloWlng the eiehmen of baby foods Mth Vlt3mtn3 and mirfJ~s ~efeas this is not sobroadly rec(JJlmonded by the SCF Only IInnoo enlticflment of baby lood ts aliowOO In some EU states oot aDanish delegations leq est that the ECobtat a stotemiddot ment from the SCFto darrty thiS point was refused by lhe EC

The EUlopean coosumers organjshysabOn aruc IS alsod at the license gwen to add nutrienlssucfl as amlOO acids which would ooly be roeltltled If the COO1jlOStOOn of the prOOmiddot ultt was IIIIIY poor and callsn a

cornpreheltlsive pol~y 00 lood Iortificamiddot 1100 belolB aloMllQ It Inbabyfoods The rna probiems In Western diets alelelaUld to macfl)nutn ts and Iac 01 hilicne Fonlfled foodstutfs 00 not

address these problems MOfBOVe It should be lealiselt ltIat the benefitsof sup11JS yit intake byhe~lhy indio vlDUals are not clear

The food Commission and BEUC havealso cntiosed me Ihrective (01

Including cflildJen aged one to thee yealsas needirlg SJCIi1l1y plopilled W8alWlg foods andwant the DectNe 10 makede that he nutritlOMI rCQlOIBmlffi lor young cillldren can be matched byevety day food

bull Mull details Tte Food ComlTllsion

EC sneaks in hypo-allergenic milks

Bnnsh and Danish camparyners am also concemoo at a PlOJlosed ilffiendment to the ECOllWlle on Infllllt Formula which woola anow the labelling 01 lomml8 tioy plotein hydrolysate as being l1ypoalmiddot lergellic or hypoantigenic and alklw claims of reduced alillfgencontent 01 educed antigen coolent

Thefe are conslllerable doubls about lhe ill of Ihese producls Unlike Ihe htgtgt-l1ydlolyate cltlntlffil prooucis used In paedUIC wards lhese corrvnerrial PJOdtJL1S have (J

klwmiddot or pantymiddothydrolyselt Plotn con ten The SCFhas calloo 101 detailed

COMA weaning report plays safe

The Department 01Healths rnpOlt on W8amng loodsmiddot published last OclObef makes 00 altempt 10 lay down recornmendee Ql6llty or mmiddot posi tIOnal speclhals although II gently chidesthe IldustlY 101 tile oxcessivo use Gt SU9lr8 by realmmiddot mending lhat the lange of Iowmiddotsugor or sugarmiddotlree products should be Increased

It also cal sfor baby lood _9 to give COrlSl$tent inf()f111(ttion undermiddot sandable to palents but fajs to say what ml~t be Wflgtng at present apan hom Ihe ed to 1If1lIy lhe amounts of sugar

The lepon appears 10 andor lhe USC of commerctallolown mllls oot oo~ aft tileage 01 SIX IfIIlths

and then edher formula or follow Jrilks may be offered Indeed il SLll gests BJeaSllTllk llIor Illant 10llnumiddot 10 are adVIselt as main dlinks the dlElt thrOUgMlJt the hlSl year of iilo and may be coolicued lor lonlJlr Cows milk IS not recommended betolll one yeal

The nepan was pTlgtdedby the list COMA gloup to incilJde an IndUS try repesentate al~h II WllSby no means the first to have several medical BXptlrts wih finalClal links to

lood comparies

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cbmeal lnals and the sUflIllying 01 ali lelevant ta cDtamed by mal1ufacmiddot turers Otoo s pecia~sts such as Bengt Iljoksten heilt 01the Scandin1Jian Federation of PaedlaUl(S are doubtful of the yakJe ollhe commerc hypo lormulae

Baby MI Action tS cltlltlrdillaung namplS 10 dlslinguishcommerCIal hypo formulae Irom hoSPital soupmiddot plies toensure thai Ih fonmel II oot be 1I0wOO 10 ma hypoallermiddot gerJc claims

bull Contact SMA 23 St AlUews 51 Cambnog CIl13AX I 01223-1~410

Bottlefeeding mums to sue Mothers who were pressured into bonle feeding their babies are WOIkmiddot

ing with campalijlling solicitor Graham RO$$ 10 csider Igal aClion against healthU1homies and baby I11Ilk companies Mothers who lee they were duly persuaded should wrile 10 Graham Ross AlabamaH se 6 Rumford Placu liverpool l 3 9BY bull Aestrictions on the lltfyelttising 01 commllfcial baby mil swere due to be emctee by Ihe UKGovernmenl Sl June They e then delayed untll ttHl auIJJTlVI thfn again to Delernher and have now been plff off IIntll JanualY after WIl go tD

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I Bad aid goes to Bosnia SendB boDy k pawdPlt 85 food aJd can undefmtne the health 01 babiesaccoldlng 10 a10lnt UN altJIffimiddot cy slatemeltlt lasl autumn The statemenl rIllrs paniCIJlarly 10 he war-striden areas ot former YiJQos~via aoo WdlllS Bjjtnst lhe distribution of commercial substi shytutes for brl mi whICh would dlscQurnge brt feoolnn and lead 10dependeoce on supplies of formula wluch may be i legumr and to lhe useof tap water fOI yoon babtes which may be contaminated Simllarlv commf3fca1 weanillg foods are nDI reCDlTUllended

BtJI the message has vet to get tluOlJgI1 Bab Ioods of an Iypes and doscnptton IBGlired II an app1

co-ordOled by the lllooon Ambulance S~ce We agtked Ihe dtrector of the afllleal Pete Kirlgsley)ucane We accept any thing he salll IncilJdtng baby milk powder Yes he su

Ths is 110t the only altJency ilClJng n good faith but thOOl sutflcienl undslandlll of tho Ploblerns that muk powder can cause selll r lollst of Tho Food Coml1llSlon tllOO in the rare tJsas vtJere orphaned babies mLISt be fed fOllnula mk ttere IS no reason 10 use comshymeroal bJaflds bUI to use non-blood ed versions and ensure them Am IOSllOCtJons In local language bull fOi more dclJils on recommooded aid for bibes QIOlacl The Food CcIrImslon

Baby food companies are linking themsehes 10 BosRian aid

l Earth ampThe Food MIJIl1e bull brMa1 t995 bull 5

I )k 6HI u4middotftshy

Organic farming is good for birds Reseh by the British Trust for OflIulOlogy has found mOle brdf~e 00 0I9anicaily managed farmland cOl1lllaed ID conventional fattlnd WItes Juhanne Evans Prellrrvnary results hom a thee year sturJy recOfdad slyiaks mern ohen on OIunnrcltJ11y managed fels than conshytJOllal OIIes fo bOlh ceeo] end grass fields Addtronally sn Oul of lhE nol1 most commonly ded brrd spetie welte significanW more frequent per uM length of hedgerov on organic rather than conventronally managed ams

The 1994 beedg ason was the last III a thcemiddotyear Itljcct run by the 8ntish Tlust fOl Dmlhology FIIlded by MAFF nod The Workfwuje FlI1 to Nawre birds WIle studied u1IoUlhout Ihe year ung rnaldled plots on oganrc end cOIIIentJonal fesmland

In 1993 and f994 Skjiak beedshy9 successwas SW()led on tMJ

fms 01 Suffolk ooe organiC and one convenlonal The SKylarks did beller on he orgac farm and par1rular organlt ceroals hPld much higher lershyntory denS419S than those under 2

conventional regtme The rnJmber of

cllCks fledged pel nestmg attempt WaS also much high on organic cereals

The researchers have concluded thai Skylas which nesl on Ihe lJiInlt cerenfs are oblB 10 prodoce en00911 chcks to malmaon a sfaille populalJOn whereas those on all n tional cereals extt SPrJlg bufoy are nol The explanatJOn for the dfshyrerooce mbreeding SuCteSS may lie In the JTeals CtOp diversity under an organlt regime which provlOOS suitshyable ns~ng habital throughout the season Another reason may be Ukll the food supply fa chrdltsIS better on organ farms Geatar CtOp diversity aiso contributes to agreatet diversity and abundance of inve~ebral ich WIll Bisel be encooraged by tn wlIhnmwal of peslicdes anO tim rotaUOllal practoces sucll as oodershysQQ_ An alequale food supply IS crucial 10 the survival of the chrcks both lie thoy are on the nesl anO when they alte Ienlng to fend tolt themselves alter they have fledged

The sulls of the hI years ric are still beonQ analysed bull Fu1her Ifriormallon Is available from Juli Evans STO 0841 750050

Bringing in the Harvest

New award for farm conservation

A fam Wales haswoo an Imporshymnt new farm t(1rlSeurorvatJOn awrud ailTled speafically at organic farms of 400 ocres or less John and Peter Morns of Stown Slade Farm Hundielon Pembroke received the walne Awards firsl pnze 01 pound2000 Iesented at IhE SOil Assoclanoo AGM on 19 November

Of the 24 entnes Brown Slat Farm wasJudged to be the best ample of profilllbe huigtandry hehhy food loouclJon and consershyvaliOO of natrYe WIldlife The farm feB shytures hay meadow whictr hav1gt not

been cloughed on IIIMg memory and acne of Soulhern Marsh OIthids Jnd well mamtained hedgerows among ItS valled wildhfe habltals The Momses have been Mly oltganlC since 1990 but had Oeen pracuSlng lOW Injllllrml1l fo years

We have been ince3SJng stock numbors and ooen ImpltoQ the farm saysPeter Morns But WI

wanled 10 keep consenriJon as pan of it as well We do It because we Ike wha twe see around us

The a_d IS sponsOled by Joan Loraine and stems fronl ove tJuny

The UKs hrst Ogilflrc Harvest Momh held lasl October has been a great success wrlles Ene Booth

Of game Harvest wtmh featlMoo the largest evet JHogramme of Hetlv1 tieS and pomollOOS of OIlIltlnlt food was promoled by the Soil AssociaUon Oltganlt Marketill Gloop Henry Doubleday Rh AssoC1anon Oltganrc Farmers amp GI()W and BiodynamIC AgIIltural ASSOCIation aod olhers_ Over one hundd IS were held and lhe Soil Association Organic HaIIesl HoUne was kpl busy sendmg out InfonnalJOn packs

The success of OlganlC Harvest was reflected in the extenSive press coverage INhlch Included Dleadel artICle D1 The Times amajOr feature In The lnd8pendent and numerous anltlas the tionalnd egional Pless

Oganic flarvest Month brolJllill toJlllhr abrrod range of supponer Retlers panlCljlaleltJ In a WIndow tirsplay compelilion With prues of pound1500 and aSari ASSOCiation memshybership for ery ntry ManoJfactUtS 9aVll Ice promt)shyoons In nnany cases ofeng thl pIDdocts at the same pnces as cooshyv1lOna1 equMIS Local groups leld harvest suppell and langed people to IIy the OganlC Taste Test

And farmers and growe otganiseltJ open days and farm walks

Pancipants ere now looking forshyWilrd 0 lhe 1995 OrganIC Harvest Month

Abrref sunvnary newslen aboul the monlh IS being paed and wed WIllcome heII1l any comshymlmts Dr suggeSlJOOS for net yea We have pltOVIld that the Organic Harvest Month idea s Ihe most polenllOollllailable 10 us folt the pmshymotion of the benefns 0 OIganlC food larn1ln9 and gatdenon9 EVIlryonewrth an Inlerest in seeillQ orgaruc Ideassplead mOle widely shouldbegin lhm~mg about hOylo rna~e [he mosl of the 1995 Organic HaM Month nowl

bull Stnt COImlants and sugg(stgzs 10 Eru Booltl at tbe Soil Assocelllf1 Intlamp 8SAE fyoud ike the Newsleuet

years Involwment With conseJVabOO and orgacs Joan rs very concerned wrth lhe Ieady erOSion of OUi counshyIrySldeS wlkllde nches SInce Wold War 2 the uend towads larger farms and the drlh of IfIe away from the land

Also specally commended wele Ihe Wolsl~nholmes fOtm al TrlOIWg I landlo lhe Eggl910ns of utile MiU Farm lJanfaenor Monmouth and Ghm and VVIiln Maltravers 75 acre council hoiding In Yor1tshire Joan lordine hopos that another catshyegOIl for hottrculMal haldiQQs can

TIt SOIbmMarsh Orchid one of U11 Tn l sures 01 Brown Slate Farm

be added 10 tne awards in the near fut bull

bull Brown Slate film Is 00kifIg III tlpsn day OI SalUrliay 10 June for further IIlimnation IOrtac( Peter Mcms 064middot 682356

6 Lrving Eanh ampTil Food MagazIne Jan-Mach t995

Organic news

Organic Food Awards draw the crowds

lizzie Van of Organix Srandsmakes tile most of photo opportunity with loyd Grossman

Champion of Champions The overall winner linJe Marcie Organic Partnerslllips box of vegeta~les

Famous names rom the world of food hlrned oul in force 10 applaud the frnest laquoons of oTJrlnic food producers allhe 1994 Soil A~iation OrgaJ lic Food Award on 24 November The Ayafrls now in their sevshy

enth ywaim 10 idllify the bet oranic foods availmiddot able in ~Je UK ond hihlihthe eoomlOu range of excellent ofillllic prodUCIS now available

is joar the A bull ms were held in theOfillllic [ailion of the HBC Good FoodCooking and Kilchen Show 31 the Natiltm~ Exhibition utlIre in Rinninham the tullimc they have tI8ltd al amajor con-SlUlIer event One hundred and teen diffennl prodshyudlt er1lfed thilt years compe1ition whirh covered 11 diffrrent food categuric neatly illustrating that n da~ you ClII buy an or~rarUr erslon (IfalmOS1-anYlhing you mighl care 10 put in YOIif sltopping bakcL AI tire fin round of judging in London food CXjlCfIS rom the four sponsors 0 the Awards - BBC Good F)(J magashyzine SafowiI) the MeltJt and lliltSlock Comlllisection and Unigatc Dairies - SOlcCUtl44 shonlistl-d products over tluw dal~ amid murh rooking chomping slurping and mltlUIItains of wahing up

be finr] judging tookplace e in ronl of a conmiddot irlmble crowd at tile NEC some of whom thought lilr tL1npting samples laid001 011 Ihe Soil Association stand were for Ihfm 10 taste ral her than for the assemmiddot bled celebrily judges Selecting the finallole~ inshyn from tilesltorl tis f44 produClS ere Millie Wilson Editor of 8BC Good Food Joann1B~1hman food wrill for 1M lndtpndnl Henridla Green well

know ulbor of Food lotffSeJlw rq Britain Mary Gwy1lIl Edilor of BBe VIIetanan Good Food Juliet Harbutt food writer and Master of Cheese POILr Bazalgcue Producer of the BBC Food and

Drink Progroll1unc Thane PrinL of the Daily Telegraph and Derek Cooper presenterom Food Programme on BBCRadio 4and food columnist for Scoiland on Suday

Carner clicked a1330pm when television per Sltloolity Loyd Grossman proellL-d eoehof the winshylIers with Ueir (lI1ifica1es The judges had adiflicuk taskreaching their decisioo ~e d The quality of dIe entries was parlicuLvly high and it is pleasing 10 see how manyofillllic products are lOWa3ilable Thest annual A3l1b hove pb)ed -auw rrart in bringing ofillllic food anddrink to U anention of the British flIblic

The winner of the overall award 111 Soil Association OTg1lnic Food Challenge Trophy and winshyner oC tlgte fnsh prodUl caIegOry was a home del boxof vegelilhles from [jill Marcie Or ic Prtnmhip in Hertfordshire On of the judges Mary Gw)lO praised the [jnle Martie _1 inspiratiooal II includes a the bt1itcarrols fh Cttr tasttcl

This was the SICond mJjor rerognition for Uule Marde in 1es1 than amonth Eartitr in N()Icmber the companyWltIS featureltl on The Food Programme on BBCRadio f uur 111t1 ueliver boes of llelilhles containing enough for two people to households in the lerlbury area for Ui50 awt( and al ppIy the Binningham area tbrouRh the Ofilllli Marketirg ComjEny T)11 (rug Cl1eese from Welsh Ofillllic Food ofLampo1dalso ored double winshyning the Dairy Prodoce C3legory and the tiOO Elm Fann Resrarrh CenITt Awanl for Food Quality

For tilr remaining ~I days 0 the show the focus of interest on ~I Soil AssociationltUmd lthIfrd 10 ~C rookery area Here top names such as Henrietta Green Valenti Hanis Julie Harbuu alld l liane Prince C3pcurcd d inragination ofrnpacily audiences by sho og how andwhy 111 prtfcr 0 UiC Ofillllic ingreriirnts and n of the be organic pr0shy

d such ltb DoeS Farm Easlbrook Farm Ofillll ir Meats bllW tJlks and d(TloostratiQns

l11e other winn were Baked Goods Aowgt and CereJI~ OrioiIral Gingered lliSl11its ShiptonMin Bevernges Worcesler and Laxton Apple Juice CrOlleS Cider Noriolk Bem and Cide Golden Pale Caledonian Brewmg Company Ready MealsSquab PIe Swaddles Green Farm Somtrgtrl Baby Food Oat Cereal with Applesand Sawherry Organix Brand$ pic Preserves and Condiments Shady Maple Farm Syrup Community food u d Snacks and Confectionery Apiche Blue TortJIIa Chip Sil bwl Marketing ud Meat TraditionalSpiced Leg of Motion Graig Fann Po~ Poultry Oven Ready Olirkcn P JOnions (Farms) Nottinghamsbirt

lgtIg Earth amp ihe food M9ne Jan-Mllaquoh 1995 1

How vegetables fight cancer The link between eating plant foods and preventing

cancer IS gammg mcreasshying suppor~ says Professor John Potter

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Lo~rn

Potatoes

LettuCll

catbage

BrocCOl

C~ts

Aliiif WflJrt11jijs

Croofufoogt lItlJjeS

L5lyglee1 9fiilIes

AH or fIes)r vegetilles

8 lMng tanh ampThe food gaZine bull lanmiddotMatth 1995

VegNabies and fruit llItaiJl an antK3r rinogfgtlic chemkal cocktaiJ which we abandon t uur Jlril Thltgt phytochemimiddot cal - chemicals of pLrn1 originwhich play crucial role in our nllabolismshy

3ct in a variety of Wil ~ ~ and confirm tilt IlLd fur human to emUfl oley ha~c a high intJk~ of plant foods

The Dietary and Nutritional Study of British Adllils found Ihe average d~) intake of raw andsabd vegetables to be boot one 01ll1 and daily take of fresh fruit about two OllllClS Over aolle lIcckperiod two thirds of the adul ts ale no leafy greft1 veRe[ables nearlylIf te no a[Jllles or peon and ne1riy Illree quarugtrs atc 0) citrus fruit U in CarLthe coilsumption or vegeWbles and fmit rtciuces cancer risk then pubmiddot ~( bealth and economic inlCfniions to increase Ihe c~nt consumption levels wol1d be -ell justified andgivm Ille cutty lowintake rclatiwly effelttivr

Surveys since the early 1Os have shown that

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rWLOlDIlk Ink ncleser IIS~

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43 i2 11 4

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30 9 I t 10

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41 18 10 4

61 49 6

30 15 4

higher ronsum[)lion (lpound fruitoi md vlgelables reduce Ihc risk of ltffIaln caIKW bull Lung cance~ The m~snrdied caneer of all lung cancer shows the mo~ evidence of ~ benefits of enlmiddot ing fruit and Ye)letablesbut this may not indicate the strnngN Unk Conmpion of carrots and JV1ltII Iafy ~gelablcs is pruticularly led wilh a low(lt risk ot lung canC(1

bull Colon cancer Crucihgtrous Iegetlbles (1M cabshybage ~1IJlily) and carrols appear 10 be bendicial They are more closely linked to bull low- risk of rolon cancer than Otlrff Vlgelablos which hae ~rnilar amounts of fibre whichsuggests that the 1owtr risk a~iated with vegelables is nol Ioined by fibre alone bull Rectal canl~ An odation bNween vegclable and fruit nsumption and a lower risk has beffi conmiddot islooOynp(l1ted bul no as5OCiatioo s ih spdie food emltllte bull Upper respiratory digestive tract caneec Conamplmplionof frui t apprars to be associated with a lower risk of canrers of the mooth pharynx lal)lIX and OOSOf)hBgu This may be rcialed to tilt common causes of UIll of the beadand neck for whioh tire strongest and mootconsistent risk factors are t]bacco and alcohol Consunlpijoo of vegcablcs PIlfm to be c~iaJIy associatlil llith Ii)wr risk of cancer of the la1m bull Stomach canc~ FllIil in general and lettuce onions IOmmOllS ceiltlry and squash baY beffi quite consistently aociatelti wilh lower risk of tomad cancer The prolective eampd of Iltflingwgmblcs and fruit raw rather than cookedor preserved also appem 10 be aCO~~eot pattern Cannclti fruit and potatoes have beenaswcialed with an increased risk in some ~t lldifs

bull Panffeas cancer Almostevery ca=nirOl rudy of pancreas canrcr has reported 10Wt~ risk asocialed with thr coosumption or lg~tabes and fruil but lt3

~dl rectal cancer00 speiiic foods 1)[0

bull Bladder cancer Cltnswnption of fruit and lttlamiddot bc in gcnLT1li andof C3JTlIS in partirularappem to be a)SOCiaied ith alower risk bull Honnone-dependent cancers Then is some evishydence of an inrne link between froil and (flable consumption and fllle breast and uterus bol lhe eide[]ce is not as fonsistent as it is for those ~~ above For ovarian and prostate cancers virtually no tvidenCe exists for an associltion

AsilL-gtJltIific review may 0 nsPful for undermiddot ~taDrling Iht IllCChunims of (ancer but what i ~ most impottant lor dietary recounncndilUOIlSi$ an (Jemll asseampment uf wh ich vegetables ilINl fJllits are asltodmiddot aled willi C3Jil-r at all sittS The tabl show summiddot U)I of the slurii showing increastd risk decreased risk and no ~SIlCialion ~tCli larhcrs and sjlttfir types of vegetables and fruiL

For all categories rxcep( potatoes and legumes more than~ per cent oj llie a~~ocialions wrrc tither in the direction of reduced cancer risk or Dull l1li~ shows there is vcry li ttle likelihood of hann arising

How vegetables fight cancer The link between eating plant foods and preventing

cancer IS gammg mcreasshying suppor~ says Professor John Potter

ctn fmll

~lW Gr Rash ~rjrt

Lo~rn

Potatoes

LettuCll

catbage

BrocCOl

C~ts

Aliiif WflJrt11jijs

Croofufoogt lItlJjeS

L5lyglee1 9fiilIes

AH or fIes)r vegetilles

8 lMng tanh ampThe food gaZine bull lanmiddotMatth 1995

VegNabies and fruit llItaiJl an antK3r rinogfgtlic chemkal cocktaiJ which we abandon t uur Jlril Thltgt phytochemimiddot cal - chemicals of pLrn1 originwhich play crucial role in our nllabolismshy

3ct in a variety of Wil ~ ~ and confirm tilt IlLd fur human to emUfl oley ha~c a high intJk~ of plant foods

The Dietary and Nutritional Study of British Adllils found Ihe average d~) intake of raw andsabd vegetables to be boot one 01ll1 and daily take of fresh fruit about two OllllClS Over aolle lIcckperiod two thirds of the adul ts ale no leafy greft1 veRe[ables nearlylIf te no a[Jllles or peon and ne1riy Illree quarugtrs atc 0) citrus fruit U in CarLthe coilsumption or vegeWbles and fmit rtciuces cancer risk then pubmiddot ~( bealth and economic inlCfniions to increase Ihe c~nt consumption levels wol1d be -ell justified andgivm Ille cutty lowintake rclatiwly effelttivr

Surveys since the early 1Os have shown that

I No No Nbull Strltlos YlIg lJrJ vng

rWLOlDIlk Ink ncleser IIS~

29 I) ~ 3

43 i2 11 4

14 7 6 I

30 9 I t 10

13 tS 3

) 11 5 ~

10 J 1 0

44 33 B 3

Ie II ~ 3

41 18 10 4

61 49 6

30 15 4

higher ronsum[)lion (lpound fruitoi md vlgelables reduce Ihc risk of ltffIaln caIKW bull Lung cance~ The m~snrdied caneer of all lung cancer shows the mo~ evidence of ~ benefits of enlmiddot ing fruit and Ye)letablesbut this may not indicate the strnngN Unk Conmpion of carrots and JV1ltII Iafy ~gelablcs is pruticularly led wilh a low(lt risk ot lung canC(1

bull Colon cancer Crucihgtrous Iegetlbles (1M cabshybage ~1IJlily) and carrols appear 10 be bendicial They are more closely linked to bull low- risk of rolon cancer than Otlrff Vlgelablos which hae ~rnilar amounts of fibre whichsuggests that the 1owtr risk a~iated with vegelables is nol Ioined by fibre alone bull Rectal canl~ An odation bNween vegclable and fruit nsumption and a lower risk has beffi conmiddot islooOynp(l1ted bul no as5OCiatioo s ih spdie food emltllte bull Upper respiratory digestive tract caneec Conamplmplionof frui t apprars to be associated with a lower risk of canrers of the mooth pharynx lal)lIX and OOSOf)hBgu This may be rcialed to tilt common causes of UIll of the beadand neck for whioh tire strongest and mootconsistent risk factors are t]bacco and alcohol Consunlpijoo of vegcablcs PIlfm to be c~iaJIy associatlil llith Ii)wr risk of cancer of the la1m bull Stomach canc~ FllIil in general and lettuce onions IOmmOllS ceiltlry and squash baY beffi quite consistently aociatelti wilh lower risk of tomad cancer The prolective eampd of Iltflingwgmblcs and fruit raw rather than cookedor preserved also appem 10 be aCO~~eot pattern Cannclti fruit and potatoes have beenaswcialed with an increased risk in some ~t lldifs

bull Panffeas cancer Almostevery ca=nirOl rudy of pancreas canrcr has reported 10Wt~ risk asocialed with thr coosumption or lg~tabes and fruil but lt3

~dl rectal cancer00 speiiic foods 1)[0

bull Bladder cancer Cltnswnption of fruit and lttlamiddot bc in gcnLT1li andof C3JTlIS in partirularappem to be a)SOCiaied ith alower risk bull Honnone-dependent cancers Then is some evishydence of an inrne link between froil and (flable consumption and fllle breast and uterus bol lhe eide[]ce is not as fonsistent as it is for those ~~ above For ovarian and prostate cancers virtually no tvidenCe exists for an associltion

AsilL-gtJltIific review may 0 nsPful for undermiddot ~taDrling Iht IllCChunims of (ancer but what i ~ most impottant lor dietary recounncndilUOIlSi$ an (Jemll asseampment uf wh ich vegetables ilINl fJllits are asltodmiddot aled willi C3Jil-r at all sittS The tabl show summiddot U)I of the slurii showing increastd risk decreased risk and no ~SIlCialion ~tCli larhcrs and sjlttfir types of vegetables and fruiL

For all categories rxcep( potatoes and legumes more than~ per cent oj llie a~~ocialions wrrc tither in the direction of reduced cancer risk or Dull l1li~ shows there is vcry li ttle likelihood of hann arising

fromthe consu mption ofhcsc foods Eventhe null results showing no associations should not necessarishyly be interp-etedas evidence against a lower risk as a w1ctyof factors tend toensure thai the associations ~n in epidemiological Sludies - whether with inm ased or decreased ri - are constMtiv(

Mostof thestudies sbowno more than a halving of the nk ofcancer with high consumplionofVL-gttashy

bles md fruit 11is maybe an undertSlimale of much stronger underlying relationships but even if the risk of cancer were only halved by increasing vegetable and fruit conslimplionihis wou ld still represent a major modifiable influence onthe overall burden of cancer in the community

Evolution We cmnot be certain to what kinds of diets hWllans are best adapled but it is reasonable to attempt some tentative speculation on early common features

bull a high intake of a wide variety of plant foods shyroots leaves nuls seeds and fruil Grains can only have become astaple in the l tlOlo ISlhoumiddot sand years and before tha Were probably gltllnfrerl inseason

bull sporadic intake of lenn meal lowinaturated fat alung i th fi sh and seafood for coastal dweIers

bull An UJ13keof insects grubs bone marrow alid meats

bull Very low iotake ofalcohol - largely by finding

over-ripe fruit before lhe birds did bull Uttlc refining or fractionationof food bull SeOnaJ vruiations both in total intake and in the

kinds of foods and nu tJients season by season

llJe nonnallong-tenn functioning of human cells depends on the presence ofavariety of dietary eonshystituents induding but not confiulgtlti to the nunients such as vitamins and essenlia1 futty acids and amino acidlt thai are essential for growth and deveopmcnl 10 additiontothese well-recognised essential nutrieots oGler nutrients the phytochemicals discussed here may also be necessary for the maintenance of the organism

In W absence of the ntltSSary nuhients human ceJls smt to malfunction Thece[Jsmay become more SUSCfpU Ie to carcinogens they may lose their protecshytive mechanisms or Ihey may slart to replicate rapidly to adapt10 their new (unprotecttlti) state

Con ly a high intake ofsubstances which are nonnally only met wilh occasionally may have dlirishymenta) consequences This includes fatlt with their eifects oncholesterol and insulin metabolism and alcohol which ads as asolvent for carrying smokingshyrelated carCinoglt-l1Sintocells as well as being an irrishytanl wltichencourages rapid cell tumovcr

It is poSiblc to objert to the suggestionthal there was an evolutionary need for dietary adaptll tion to ensure that tht species was protected from rhrnnic diseases Natural selection influences reproductive success whereltls chronic diseaampS strike after the

reoductive yean and some suggest (Iillool therefor influence the survival of the species

In fes)JltJne Iwould argue Ihal 1irYly hUmaM have a long period of juvellil dependeocr and the ~shyvival of the PlIl llts a beallhyslate is likely to am)ltl r Ihe stIfiai of 01 offsprillg til reprodlldive yea $eoolldly the sll ilai of tribes and bands would be inOlicllced by having suffidentelders who knev how 10 respond lO infrequentlymet ha7ards - food or ~ter shortage epidemic disease etc The tribal isshydam rntintaiJled by lhe old would bave nleant survival of the Ink

Further adiet lhal r1duces risk ofcancer may 10 be adiet that improves reproductive sutCe$S1~ are a wide variety of substances thaI increase - and me that r1dutt - bodJ teratogenICity (octUJ1elC of birth defects) and carcinogenicity Selection for diet lhat improved reproductive success could directly sclcCl for reduced risk of C UCff

Plot Jot 0 Purt_ MaSS PhIl n co-cliainmn d tho World Cancer RMrorch Fund perl pone on ilHlt d Cancer and I ~ hear 01 the Cancer Preventm RllS8arch Plogram Sealtle nd PlofO$Sor 31 Wastvton uwrSly Seattle

Thilllnlclt hele hts been aken frem Professor Pouifs Caoire Wiamplt tc119J1 Th tull toel Cen wllh a V80lllbJrJ avo pJrtrt Itrool and C(JICfN nst ml be obIained b I 101 Carolore WTrusl 3d 1100 5111 Worsll p Stret london ELlA2Blt ~rce pound7 ~

Phytochemicals - how they work c- Mo lhan SQJ carotnords Folic KiIAdefICiency of foiales causes 5 1IMIos TOOse appear 10 which birxls ~ee oestTOljen May ato IlhIllt OCUi in Mlure present ingreen tea~ eg crliormsomal damage and the formation of increase the aclMty 01 severa eilzymes and cell growlhsip II1lI ctomcals 10SIJ1e

elabes and yelloworange vegetables and micrOllUCIei can irrrease the capacity ofhEmiddot~ve r iO inacmiddot kinasesi hUllS Converted to ViafTlin Athe h3Ve a tivam oestrogens roleIII cell differentiatIOn (ncnmiddotdifferentiltlOn SeteThIS IS aco-faCOf lor gJJdtli lo1e sofrnmd mosUV ~ soya ~00re con IS afeature of caocer cells) CarotenDids peroxidase an enzyme that protects from ls ~middot Thes biodble a~ds IIId cIme~erol and also quench singlet oxygenmolecules and oxidative damage It can also suppress cell inru~1 DNA m a1101l drJnog colern IrIhibit growm rete and DNA synthesis rie trap free radicals pro~ieration SIS They may also bIoQ carclrIOPIS fom of some tumour cells

specific sites and may induce soWlDiiing fcil CThis IS an anti-OXidant and can DiltIrJ fiIIre Fibrecan encourage greater enzyme activity IrIIeIsI iIIIiIIittrs these mrbr 111~ acllJfl eilhance the Immune response It can also fermentation activity the gut inhibiting the of enzymes which destro~ lhe Klra-c~Iu~

pevent nitrites becoming nitrosamines conversion of prim3IY to secondar bile acids -illThese inhibit tumour formation matrix and which cause cellular detachlT~nt

linked to stomach carrer Anti it p_ays a roll which are potential co-carcirmgens thel by blockmg tes or by inducig solu~shy and permit local invasion IJ the creation of collagen a co~nectr1 tiSshy Fermentation can encourage theformation Uzing enzyme activity sue vhich can encapsulateand lifnlt of bJtyrate an aCId witn lumlaquor-inllblting PIlot stenIs Simlar 10chrJpoundsteroi 00t tumourous groWlhs prGperties 1InoooiftThese inc~de qUOfcertm Ihese 1 tIIrough the I IIV urlbshy

kaerrltjlIOfOI mVTlt~in and ch~Sin ulin sorbed hey may docse colctJ tumoJr r_lC~I-rnembrane lany acIds are proshy ~rllU These appear to increase the fl-Jbiletin and tangeretin They act as antishy frfmatlOn pcssiII~ by affecting cell memo tected Iom orodalion by vitam E whlth ieI~ts 01 ~ulalh enzymes and reduce idaotsaM have mixed [fuelS 00 ida branes also maln taifls seler~um in its rehefl state chfOmosome breaks ard liprd pefOxidation actMty ~nd inhibits nitrosamine formation atlOW pH __These have anll-McMlal

- These probab~ act by flduclJ soshy ISome of these have weak propert~s and may also stimulate producmiddot liH Found incilrus twit oils imonene ubilizi19 enzyme actMIY and Irtllbit oestrogenic activity blocking free oestrogen tion of detoxifying enzymes I1duces detoxifying enzyme activity ntllosamine productlot a1d stimuli ing the production 01gobu~n

lMngEanhamp Ihc Iood MagalllO bull Jan-Marth 1995 9

news

Woodmark applies for Forest Stewardship Council accreditation

The Responsilleuro fOlestry PrograrTVTle was plead to welcome Or Tim Synnott e Cutiv direct of the For Stewardship Councit IfSC on his recent Vl$al 0 start the process of acltrednl1g the Sal Assoclntioos Woodmarlt timber cenificabon and labelng scheme

The FSC IS Ille internabOllal umbrella organisation for umber cernshyfier S O1tlent to me tnternabOnal

Watch out for winter lettuce

last autumn awarnng le tt was sent to mare than 500 lettute grow ers aner MAfF figuresrevealed that a qunor of Brrtlsh-grown lettuces ale contamrnated With fungicidesat revels Ihal beach the mrunmum reSIdue lever SOl by government The funglcdes nclooe Mancoleb and Zineb which nave illtlth been clfied by the US EnVIronment ProtectlOn Agenry as pol)able hum~n Cltlrclnogens Th6 coolflmishynat iDn has been traced oack to Winshy

ter letl1les produced under glass by 8litish grOWQrs Residues were oot found on let1tJces Impooed from me EO

But it is nOI iusl excesSive levels of fungicides lettuce which have been causing problems l evels of nitrates which come from fertilis IS_ are also 100 high says Ihe EUTopean Commission But nstead of supponng moves to protect con SUfTlltlIS MAFFis argUing that It WIll be imposSibte for British glassnouse glowers to meet pro~ posed limits The answer It searns is lO DUY Clrgaruc vegetahles In seil shyson- afindmg baCKed up by stud shyies al Ihe Elm Farm Research Cenue

Federatmn of Olgamc Agncultural Movements (IfDAM) role for organrc certifiers During hIS VISIt Or Synnott visitedWoodmaKcenified forests at Pengol Wales and Oangtoo Devon and met with IDlest nagers and Woodmark ilSjlectars The acaeditatJOn process wi~ take severmiddot al month~ and the Soil Associatl()n IS pocted to be one of the flfst cenr shytiers to be approved

First English Woodmark timber on sale SOIl Asslt)CI3oon-cenrlied softwoods and hardwoods are now on sale lrom OaltlllQton Home Woods The timber cunently bllmg offered for tender to commercial btlyers Includes douglas fit norway spruce larch western 1iltJ cedar coast redwood oak ash oDiJ smsll quanti ties of oousuol woods surh as tulip wood We are delightshyed by tM Ositibullbull mtolest shown by potential buyers said James Lonsdale Darlington s forst managshyer and are very pleased hl lie on the map as the first producer of commor shycial quantltaes of certmed timbr In

EuiJO

bull fu tUtIw information contact tan Rowland Foresl 0f0Cet at Ule Woodmak heme Tet 0272 ~61

Ii)WOODMARK THE SOIL ASSOC IATIONS

CERT IFICATE Of I RESPONSIBLE FORES TRY

FSC Brazil beef hormone fears

The Brazilian institute for Consumer Defence IDEC has warnedothet COrlsumm organisalJonsaJound the wllltld that the Braliilan glMlmment mav allow llie use of onaoolc S1E1lgtds for 11109 cattle Government officials dedabullbull lIIat meat containOJ9 nabolies will only be for dOlTleSIlt e bUlIDEC says born experience that conlrols aw mally Loxand me 8rnzthn autilltlfl shyties have no rneans 01 carryrnglhem out effectlvoly

Organic food

processmg

The leathethead Food Research AssociatJOnIS hosting a seminar on organic food PIOCesng on 23 Febru 1995 which will highloght develonmenls nd opponunines OJ orgaOic food proceSSing leglslalVe developmems ana case studies FClr tu~her InformatIOn oontact ConferenceAdmin lStrotiun Leomerhead Food RA (01372)

1 37676 1

IIOCU attacks irradiation The promotion of food Irradauon by the World Healm Organlsat shywhose long-deferred repan in laYOUf of the process was ra~y published In October - has heen att ckeo by the leading interTlalion1l CXInstJmeJ

body the IntemabOnal Organisation of Consumer Unions IIOCU

1he fAO and WHOPlomote trTashy

dratton as a means of dealing willi world hunger and reducing loodshybome disease by 1I11in9 iJOsts and micro-organisms and so increasing he yearrOllnd supply of wholesome food says IOCU poicy and camshypaignS dnector Maria Eiona ~I rtado The eVidence for thIS claim is weak and It can equally be rgood that tar 1I10re can be achievedby ImproVll19 nnanufacturl~ Plocesses and providshyIng secure storage plants

I~adiatlng grm WIll she says I e it fuII of deDd msectsand ce Little IS known ahout Ille effects Cli irradiation on pestiCIde reSidues she adds

-MI1 bull ~

~ TH ~

In developm~ countnes a comshymon cause of drhoea In Iant was themixng of milk powder With ulIClean water In the lI1ird wurfd spending sccuCe reSOUJt8s 11 pltMdshyIng clean WtlTEI would do much more lor peo~I-s health than investong in xiJOlISIVe food i~adiatlon plants

bull Food lnadilllion Soiut1rJrr 0lt r_ tOCU 8rifrto Paper No 3 1994 mn loeu 24 Higtbgty Crn1 london N5 tRX

to bull living Eonh ampTho food Mag Jan-Mach tm

news

Woodmark applies for Forest Stewardship Council accreditation

The Responsilleuro fOlestry PrograrTVTle was plead to welcome Or Tim Synnott e Cutiv direct of the For Stewardship Councit IfSC on his recent Vl$al 0 start the process of acltrednl1g the Sal Assoclntioos Woodmarlt timber cenificabon and labelng scheme

The FSC IS Ille internabOllal umbrella organisation for umber cernshyfier S O1tlent to me tnternabOnal

Watch out for winter lettuce

last autumn awarnng le tt was sent to mare than 500 lettute grow ers aner MAfF figuresrevealed that a qunor of Brrtlsh-grown lettuces ale contamrnated With fungicidesat revels Ihal beach the mrunmum reSIdue lever SOl by government The funglcdes nclooe Mancoleb and Zineb which nave illtlth been clfied by the US EnVIronment ProtectlOn Agenry as pol)able hum~n Cltlrclnogens Th6 coolflmishynat iDn has been traced oack to Winshy

ter letl1les produced under glass by 8litish grOWQrs Residues were oot found on let1tJces Impooed from me EO

But it is nOI iusl excesSive levels of fungicides lettuce which have been causing problems l evels of nitrates which come from fertilis IS_ are also 100 high says Ihe EUTopean Commission But nstead of supponng moves to protect con SUfTlltlIS MAFFis argUing that It WIll be imposSibte for British glassnouse glowers to meet pro~ posed limits The answer It searns is lO DUY Clrgaruc vegetahles In seil shyson- afindmg baCKed up by stud shyies al Ihe Elm Farm Research Cenue

Federatmn of Olgamc Agncultural Movements (IfDAM) role for organrc certifiers During hIS VISIt Or Synnott visitedWoodmaKcenified forests at Pengol Wales and Oangtoo Devon and met with IDlest nagers and Woodmark ilSjlectars The acaeditatJOn process wi~ take severmiddot al month~ and the Soil Associatl()n IS pocted to be one of the flfst cenr shytiers to be approved

First English Woodmark timber on sale SOIl Asslt)CI3oon-cenrlied softwoods and hardwoods are now on sale lrom OaltlllQton Home Woods The timber cunently bllmg offered for tender to commercial btlyers Includes douglas fit norway spruce larch western 1iltJ cedar coast redwood oak ash oDiJ smsll quanti ties of oousuol woods surh as tulip wood We are delightshyed by tM Ositibullbull mtolest shown by potential buyers said James Lonsdale Darlington s forst managshyer and are very pleased hl lie on the map as the first producer of commor shycial quantltaes of certmed timbr In

EuiJO

bull fu tUtIw information contact tan Rowland Foresl 0f0Cet at Ule Woodmak heme Tet 0272 ~61

Ii)WOODMARK THE SOIL ASSOC IATIONS

CERT IFICATE Of I RESPONSIBLE FORES TRY

FSC Brazil beef hormone fears

The Brazilian institute for Consumer Defence IDEC has warnedothet COrlsumm organisalJonsaJound the wllltld that the Braliilan glMlmment mav allow llie use of onaoolc S1E1lgtds for 11109 cattle Government officials dedabullbull lIIat meat containOJ9 nabolies will only be for dOlTleSIlt e bUlIDEC says born experience that conlrols aw mally Loxand me 8rnzthn autilltlfl shyties have no rneans 01 carryrnglhem out effectlvoly

Organic food

processmg

The leathethead Food Research AssociatJOnIS hosting a seminar on organic food PIOCesng on 23 Febru 1995 which will highloght develonmenls nd opponunines OJ orgaOic food proceSSing leglslalVe developmems ana case studies FClr tu~her InformatIOn oontact ConferenceAdmin lStrotiun Leomerhead Food RA (01372)

1 37676 1

IIOCU attacks irradiation The promotion of food Irradauon by the World Healm Organlsat shywhose long-deferred repan in laYOUf of the process was ra~y published In October - has heen att ckeo by the leading interTlalion1l CXInstJmeJ

body the IntemabOnal Organisation of Consumer Unions IIOCU

1he fAO and WHOPlomote trTashy

dratton as a means of dealing willi world hunger and reducing loodshybome disease by 1I11in9 iJOsts and micro-organisms and so increasing he yearrOllnd supply of wholesome food says IOCU poicy and camshypaignS dnector Maria Eiona ~I rtado The eVidence for thIS claim is weak and It can equally be rgood that tar 1I10re can be achievedby ImproVll19 nnanufacturl~ Plocesses and providshyIng secure storage plants

I~adiatlng grm WIll she says I e it fuII of deDd msectsand ce Little IS known ahout Ille effects Cli irradiation on pestiCIde reSidues she adds

-MI1 bull ~

~ TH ~

In developm~ countnes a comshymon cause of drhoea In Iant was themixng of milk powder With ulIClean water In the lI1ird wurfd spending sccuCe reSOUJt8s 11 pltMdshyIng clean WtlTEI would do much more lor peo~I-s health than investong in xiJOlISIVe food i~adiatlon plants

bull Food lnadilllion Soiut1rJrr 0lt r_ tOCU 8rifrto Paper No 3 1994 mn loeu 24 Higtbgty Crn1 london N5 tRX

to bull living Eonh ampTho food Mag Jan-Mach tm

The Food Commission takes a closer look at supermarket ultra-low cost products - and finds

the price wars leave a lot to be desired

Cut-price food at the cost of our health Despite claiming to be on the side of consumers and their health supermarkets are putting profits first in their latest battle for our purses

Supermarkets spend 1ll000sands of pounds producing Ioyely glossy leaflets adsKl their shlJllpers 1 to eat a healllly diet They spend thousands mcte pounds puttng tho

numllonal datI 01 their products on the label so that custonlBrs call choose the healthie products d they wish

And lthough both teaflt and IJbolHng sclllll1es h been cnllciseoJ both meres are claimed by the supeHnariets to rap4esEIllt thoir illishytenoon to e~OIIiIlle better public health Bo t when It comes to Influencing choice lhrcUllh their pnce It appears the supennalicets are putlr1Q their PIVlClpkjs bol1nd them

In their attempt It) IIac~ cuslonlBrs hom the IOW-COSI discounting dlalllS such es KgtVIk-Save AId nd Netto the supermarets have launcheoJ the own ranges of extra-low priced products T co led with heir Vale lines SafeIVays 101shylowed with thoi SS and SainsvUIY with their Essenli KIIk-S fought back with their No Fnns ranga

In each case the shOflS haye Jakel] the VWlW

that cutting the profit marglllS IIldn some CllseS evlm making a loss on the seecteoJ itOOls is wurth wMe 11 ()Ide 11) regain cUStomer TestO BSti mates the Value IIIlB bnngs In an extrn ttaij m hDn cUstomeis eetI weelt

RepoateoJ SUIY have shown the imIlortance 01 price whfln detetminlng CholCA etia II ~mong lllwer I1come mmlles Uust those mmilies most at AS of oalll19 unhaa~hl doetsl A t rlI by Retail Analjst tound 27 of customers used Price alone in determinIng MlEfa they went i10WIrlJ

It would appear the perfect opportunity to use pricing pollCes to encourage healthier food choices

But In the Fttotl CIlml1lsss exciuse SUM we IOIJl~ the oppOlturtltj had been thrown awaj

Continues on ne page

h serctled by Dil e Broc~ank a d TIm LolJstein

u~ amp ihe food Mogazine JMach 1995 bull t t

checl(out

Essential no-frills value savers - or I -~l --

just junk t~~~~ ~ i Il I- --~-~ ~-- tO

Sainsbury for example happily lhe bate minimum detalis and I ---___Despite their rhetoric mduood sausage rolls cola drink nnd many 99 Mne al all For exam- I the --- ~I

the supermarkets graulaled sugar as Essentials pie we COIJld fin~ nG Saleway I tJ - - __~~ have lost 8JI AI supermarkets discounted Saver with saturated fal Dr sugar ~a ~ ---~

whrte sliced bread IK wiSave to an IClEIIs hcJ 1 a1tb ~ opportunity to put amazill Z1 Plor 1alJ loan but only This is Mll1 lhe con5Umcr U )

IVIO disccuntad wholemeal bread IInereL II we bflll ~~~f~ Itheir prices where d bolh of Ihem ISafeway and offered a duce we need the ~~~t--~ their moutlls are Tescol charged 4pound1-50 Pel cent more delnlls IG make an ilformed cho

for lite wholemeal Price alone can be badt( rntSleadllQ Chololatcs sweels Illultlings ond At the same lime the quality of ond Ihe sorts 01 produCIS bemll chocolate iJiscuits offered as

imlucements 10 buytire goods being offered al dlScoult offered ala cut iJltIC9 are lieIy to

In (fder III attract the cugtshy

was often oSlarmalty Ier lOr encourage a iJltIOr mel torne back fngtm lhelr COfIIshy flsI1 fingers were mlflCed fISh not The Food cmmISsioo waullt ikePBtltors the supormarkats lUll pieces_ BUlge wa likely to to sa peimarkol ptJlting full nutnshyneeded to tthe pm of Incluce poor quallily meal III mecba 1I0noilabello1g on all their productsIle 01 goods and premote lcally recovered mel Pies and and lor th III use price cuttlflll 10these heaily To Dttract custom it pastres were inclined to hove mare encourage healthier diel5 The prodshy

may not he mottered too rrudl paSlryand liihng 0 ham to uCI manag ond staff nlitntlonlSl

wllch products he supermartel5 have extra woter employed by he s~elmartetsprornoted wilh pnce cuts as longs

snOlJld be embarrassed by the prodshyW prodUCI wBfe Ii~ely te get

UCIS crantlv be9 offeted as anbought - and so In poocljlle aWId Poor labels onducemenllG shelp In the compa

ile ollteailllier foerl$ could ho nies slmesbean disccunlOd and stroogly proshy BtJt armpang ploduts w JIll

mao lIlS by Ih6 supllTlilrkelsmalad BtJllIle lists of products obmOled relucwnce to gIve useful nutritiona

by the roed CommlSion fom the labellrlg Again the o~ies 1lSIJshy

supelmarkets showsa tendency to ally pnde hemsalves i11ealtfg the way in gIVing consumers adetaiedpromote 11hlng they Hook WIll etl

VlIIIl a SOltV disreQdrd If)( the numshy isting of nutrients encouragi1g to tinna Hects on their ClislomBfS shop healthily by companng the valshy

Of Ihe lour supermarkets surmiddot ues fill sainted fat sugar sal t and Iilre BtJt 001 Ylhen il COOl 10 tilVd oniV IwO saw fillo dlSunl

the potBtoos canots ond on special plomQti~ ThIlIl-price plOO1(loons sfrowed aootableBul mOil eluded disccunts on bungshyabsence 01 COtnprehens nutnllOnolalS rhi~ CflSPS ~1ms biscuits

tilk Ice cream alt1d soh dunks_ labellrlg with some pqrduct giving

17 L Ealt1h ampThs Food Matlltmne JaD-Marclr 199

--

The cut-price promotions that promote poor diets

We took each of tlte supermarkets and compared the prodshy

uct ranges tlley were promoting at discount witlt the recshy

ommended purchasing patterns given by the Department

of Health in their National Food Guide - see lalt issue of

this magazine The Guide launched last summer recomshy

mends that a third of our diet should consist of fruit and

vegetables and a third of bread other cereal foods and

potatoes The remaining third covers milk and dairy foods

meat fish and alternatives and lastly the smallest cat gory of all fatty and sugary foods

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

SAINSBURY

-SAFEWAY

In contrast fatty and sugary foods constituted tile largest single category of foods being promoted by all tile supermarkets except Sainsbury All supermarkets fall

short of promoting a range of products in line with

recommended balance of foods

0 Products wIKe 1Md McoteIfnJ to the Detment of Heatths categories

tdI exclude composite food We lito d identical foods in diff8fWl1

pock IIOL 1M composite - bei w pi ond shy

in ORr view allO fatty fooda

KWIK SAVE

TESto

(

iMngEanh The Food Mgazre 8 Jon Marth IS 8 13

checl(out

00 aDelS Once again our sharp-eyed shoppers have scoured the shelves for suspicious statements and misleading messages

Mechanical meat

~ 0

fiJ)~G~s_~oOI -

--shy

TOIl poe 10 Teseo od aclose secshyDod 10 KWlk Save for the hest labell efforts IIlBir ultFHheap meat products

What bullbullbull the fint th IOgledlenU lis~d In the small pllnt 01 Tao Vfuolktll1 IngIefjl8llts Mecharucally recovered _ meJll mechaJICilly IeCDVefed

ptNk I ptNk nlld

Stmtla~v K Saves No frills 8ge[5 00 Gnlls admill mcchal1l call recovered meat III ttle 1Il9edel1l itsls MecttIlically JlllMled meal I11taI1S IhltII Ite CilrcasB has alad had lhe best meat emoved the

14 e llmg Em1h ampThe food Magarma e JanmiddotMaltth 1995

remaining boiS are put 1Il1OJ~ a millelt vicious waShKlg machKle 10 Sllp lhe last slveds 01 soft lissue off til btS This makes a watill) greasy pasta or skJllY gey-whlte atld pownttllly full of bacttlla EnsulO the product cooked thoughoulmiddot says Tesco and Enseno nace of retllemalOs says KWdI Save

legally these sorts of podUCIS must havIl 6() meal Icil COO be mechanically recovered) If lhe freat s mechanically recoVB$l then he IJbel shotAd say SO - although th1s has been testatl only In 0 maglSlrales tmn But atiess than 50p per Ib the poduts mak II1tereslJlg ahematlve 10 IIIIIlIXI cat food

No-name bangers And whtle we e on lIle subJICt 01 low cosl meat we notice SaosbtI) has been porno~ng as aSatnsby [ssenlal e bag of no sausages NOlhlng odd emplillalil 001 say thOl tIlBSe are beef or polk or anytJwtg else The firsllngredlent is SImply Mr In fact wNon we asked Sarosbu(s wltat meat meant lhey admilled the products webullbull actually made of poultry (chlOton or wllsy) boo1 BOd 0011

We were IIltaresled 10 see tllat when the Ss1ges went throUlh the cileckoUithe message came up PORK SAUSAGES and iodOlld 1M same message gets pintatl 00 lIle III slip

Howe Sarosbu(s woukj be breakilllJ the law they labelled hese as pork sausages as

pok sausages must have a mnirTllm 01 65 meat In Ihem ntese un named sausages only declated 6() meat

Superwhat lUi lui No I1glodlCnls hst on thl bonJe of SUpermall-dllnk wth vnashymin B You can gc t aWilV WIIh soch bad behaviour jf the dnnk is an alto holic bevge bul this poduct VOl(

explictlly says 0 noo-alcohohc m1 dnnk So lhere realty is no excuse We asked the company what they thought they wtIre doing BOO Ihoy very kindly sao it 3S1lt anything to do With them but was down to Ine Danish manufacturers IDanlSh Inlbullbull bew Lid of Copenhagooi flowever yes bull t was a pobiem aod ftgredient ksting was eJlllCted very

SO

-------

Naturally Scots It IS a lew years ago 001 mally of us remember the governments pen NlOO AdgtiSO Olmrrntt eJqlressi9 tt~ il nnoyance with companies who used WlJrds like natural wholemiddot some lid olher _ meallngless phrases Naturnr in parshyticulaf gal them annoyed alld they specifically locommellded nvts 10 the use

01 the word only when the product or ilgJedimiddot enl had 001 beon tampered With axcepi

Vintage pills Casting in on poptja misronceplJOO about Freoch heart dISease rates you can now buy the essel1Cll of ~ INsS of win in the lorm 250mg reltJ WIne extract Each capSUla IS epparently equEl1 to tvutJ glasses of the real

to render it edIJ1e wen ~ now appears that il

Scouaoo alieasl they must be glowing ITlOllOiIlvterldes of fatl~ acids in crofte(s ~aldell$ aiOllg WltIl Qual glIli tl 011 the hl)hlalldsoo sodillTl Igmate mthe lochs And presllm3b1y Ihey hew been making ice cream with It or centuries

How else co~d all tIlese ingledi - ents plus gfyw

110 be deSCtlbed by the Mackie company as beIlg Tha rll1est naluial inQloolems1Id a tradillonal ScxntlSh recipe Fresh hom

tile ScottISh fmm

Ig the sellmg ~nce of (7 gets you ten boWes WIlrth

It might all be acl lOt f II n for the claim tllat Ihe plls may do you gooo Oluld help mammiddot tam a healtby hoan says rne packet d lhe COIJlllallI say~ the C8ps1Jles oonmm he same actIVe lIflJOxidanl components which may help to pomiddot teel cholesterol the blood from oxlshydalion thus 119 to mall1laln a

healll1y heart Aclaim Ii this

IS on tile lace ttl II

quite meaningless oot the ImplicatIOn tllat the lIs can positiYeIy aHOC your health would

Il(Ifly he reSlJlctoo In ptooocts wltho meltJicalllcense These products

PlflSIllrJabiy have no such ~cenS9 as you can be

s the company would be t11I9 rl they had one

IThe Milky Way

Aread says he has been oollll9 10 perstlade Nes tle that Ihelf Mllkytr whi le chocolate buttons ale deSCIihed in a grosslv misleading way on the pocket

The pack boasts MYkybat While CboaJlate Buttons are ubilious_1Id wtUllesome and conlaln the good ness of rull cream milk Thoy falltO QlV9 an Illg reeliet its is althoogh th astalemont which tooks like one but isn Whn chocolale COnmiddot tains vegetable fa~ emulsilior Itcrt in and fIavoonog

Just how nutnlmus iIIld whol some are these sweets Thase tlescpptions are no usually awlmiddot

elated with confectionery prod-shyutts oollhoy me used 10 oescnile nvlk- or at least hay wee in the daVs belDie oaity fat got a bad name M~k is reellmmended bV uu partlCulaly fa lIs ootcillTl and V11amI1 82 jthtanvnl COOlent

Our table beIltlw com es the nU1Jt1lQ1 01 MlfIlt)1lar ButlOns with a glass of mnk The mooufactuters might argue lhat we are unfairly comparg a mgleoceof chocolate WIth a whole glass 01 mi~ and tllat aproper eqlJivalllf1l - 2009 of while chocolatn woold II1VII mudl bena caldum and tluamm fig lut unlorll1ately 200g of chocolat

would elso l)IIe many adults the emil e fetornroonded maximum tat intake fll r dy tD say nothing of tile twentymiddottwo heaped IMpoons 01 gal

bull We nate lhat a new pack01 Mr roor Ilunon is OOIV on ale wltrch gi95 lhe Iu illreelit i st d dops tile cl1Ifn tllat the product is nutntJous III1d wholesom [he pack Slill say rt oootbull the goodshyoess of lui cream ITlIlk

How Milkybar compare with whole milk 1 pack nutlc OOrnl giltlSS mill

Fat 10 Ig Jag SltJ1Ir 183g 96g

Protein 24~ 6~g

CalCium 82rlg 230mq This mn 241l 600ug

go wltrest tedN 0 bull

uwtg E2nII ampThe food Magolre bull _w IB8 bull I

checl(out

Essential no-frills value savers - or I -~l --

just junk t~~~~ ~ i Il I- --~-~ ~-- tO

Sainsbury for example happily lhe bate minimum detalis and I ---___Despite their rhetoric mduood sausage rolls cola drink nnd many 99 Mne al all For exam- I the --- ~I

the supermarkets graulaled sugar as Essentials pie we COIJld fin~ nG Saleway I tJ - - __~~ have lost 8JI AI supermarkets discounted Saver with saturated fal Dr sugar ~a ~ ---~

whrte sliced bread IK wiSave to an IClEIIs hcJ 1 a1tb ~ opportunity to put amazill Z1 Plor 1alJ loan but only This is Mll1 lhe con5Umcr U )

IVIO disccuntad wholemeal bread IInereL II we bflll ~~~f~ Itheir prices where d bolh of Ihem ISafeway and offered a duce we need the ~~~t--~ their moutlls are Tescol charged 4pound1-50 Pel cent more delnlls IG make an ilformed cho

for lite wholemeal Price alone can be badt( rntSleadllQ Chololatcs sweels Illultlings ond At the same lime the quality of ond Ihe sorts 01 produCIS bemll chocolate iJiscuits offered as

imlucements 10 buytire goods being offered al dlScoult offered ala cut iJltIC9 are lieIy to

In (fder III attract the cugtshy

was often oSlarmalty Ier lOr encourage a iJltIOr mel torne back fngtm lhelr COfIIshy flsI1 fingers were mlflCed fISh not The Food cmmISsioo waullt ikePBtltors the supormarkats lUll pieces_ BUlge wa likely to to sa peimarkol ptJlting full nutnshyneeded to tthe pm of Incluce poor quallily meal III mecba 1I0noilabello1g on all their productsIle 01 goods and premote lcally recovered mel Pies and and lor th III use price cuttlflll 10these heaily To Dttract custom it pastres were inclined to hove mare encourage healthier diel5 The prodshy

may not he mottered too rrudl paSlryand liihng 0 ham to uCI manag ond staff nlitntlonlSl

wllch products he supermartel5 have extra woter employed by he s~elmartetsprornoted wilh pnce cuts as longs

snOlJld be embarrassed by the prodshyW prodUCI wBfe Ii~ely te get

UCIS crantlv be9 offeted as anbought - and so In poocljlle aWId Poor labels onducemenllG shelp In the compa

ile ollteailllier foerl$ could ho nies slmesbean disccunlOd and stroogly proshy BtJt armpang ploduts w JIll

mao lIlS by Ih6 supllTlilrkelsmalad BtJllIle lists of products obmOled relucwnce to gIve useful nutritiona

by the roed CommlSion fom the labellrlg Again the o~ies 1lSIJshy

supelmarkets showsa tendency to ally pnde hemsalves i11ealtfg the way in gIVing consumers adetaiedpromote 11hlng they Hook WIll etl

VlIIIl a SOltV disreQdrd If)( the numshy isting of nutrients encouragi1g to tinna Hects on their ClislomBfS shop healthily by companng the valshy

Of Ihe lour supermarkets surmiddot ues fill sainted fat sugar sal t and Iilre BtJt 001 Ylhen il COOl 10 tilVd oniV IwO saw fillo dlSunl

the potBtoos canots ond on special plomQti~ ThIlIl-price plOO1(loons sfrowed aootableBul mOil eluded disccunts on bungshyabsence 01 COtnprehens nutnllOnolalS rhi~ CflSPS ~1ms biscuits

tilk Ice cream alt1d soh dunks_ labellrlg with some pqrduct giving

17 L Ealt1h ampThs Food Matlltmne JaD-Marclr 199

--

The cut-price promotions that promote poor diets

We took each of tlte supermarkets and compared the prodshy

uct ranges tlley were promoting at discount witlt the recshy

ommended purchasing patterns given by the Department

of Health in their National Food Guide - see lalt issue of

this magazine The Guide launched last summer recomshy

mends that a third of our diet should consist of fruit and

vegetables and a third of bread other cereal foods and

potatoes The remaining third covers milk and dairy foods

meat fish and alternatives and lastly the smallest cat gory of all fatty and sugary foods

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

SAINSBURY

-SAFEWAY

In contrast fatty and sugary foods constituted tile largest single category of foods being promoted by all tile supermarkets except Sainsbury All supermarkets fall

short of promoting a range of products in line with

recommended balance of foods

0 Products wIKe 1Md McoteIfnJ to the Detment of Heatths categories

tdI exclude composite food We lito d identical foods in diff8fWl1

pock IIOL 1M composite - bei w pi ond shy

in ORr view allO fatty fooda

KWIK SAVE

TESto

(

iMngEanh The Food Mgazre 8 Jon Marth IS 8 13

checl(out

00 aDelS Once again our sharp-eyed shoppers have scoured the shelves for suspicious statements and misleading messages

Mechanical meat

~ 0

fiJ)~G~s_~oOI -

--shy

TOIl poe 10 Teseo od aclose secshyDod 10 KWlk Save for the hest labell efforts IIlBir ultFHheap meat products

What bullbullbull the fint th IOgledlenU lis~d In the small pllnt 01 Tao Vfuolktll1 IngIefjl8llts Mecharucally recovered _ meJll mechaJICilly IeCDVefed

ptNk I ptNk nlld

Stmtla~v K Saves No frills 8ge[5 00 Gnlls admill mcchal1l call recovered meat III ttle 1Il9edel1l itsls MecttIlically JlllMled meal I11taI1S IhltII Ite CilrcasB has alad had lhe best meat emoved the

14 e llmg Em1h ampThe food Magarma e JanmiddotMaltth 1995

remaining boiS are put 1Il1OJ~ a millelt vicious waShKlg machKle 10 Sllp lhe last slveds 01 soft lissue off til btS This makes a watill) greasy pasta or skJllY gey-whlte atld pownttllly full of bacttlla EnsulO the product cooked thoughoulmiddot says Tesco and Enseno nace of retllemalOs says KWdI Save

legally these sorts of podUCIS must havIl 6() meal Icil COO be mechanically recovered) If lhe freat s mechanically recoVB$l then he IJbel shotAd say SO - although th1s has been testatl only In 0 maglSlrales tmn But atiess than 50p per Ib the poduts mak II1tereslJlg ahematlve 10 IIIIIlIXI cat food

No-name bangers And whtle we e on lIle subJICt 01 low cosl meat we notice SaosbtI) has been porno~ng as aSatnsby [ssenlal e bag of no sausages NOlhlng odd emplillalil 001 say thOl tIlBSe are beef or polk or anytJwtg else The firsllngredlent is SImply Mr In fact wNon we asked Sarosbu(s wltat meat meant lhey admilled the products webullbull actually made of poultry (chlOton or wllsy) boo1 BOd 0011

We were IIltaresled 10 see tllat when the Ss1ges went throUlh the cileckoUithe message came up PORK SAUSAGES and iodOlld 1M same message gets pintatl 00 lIle III slip

Howe Sarosbu(s woukj be breakilllJ the law they labelled hese as pork sausages as

pok sausages must have a mnirTllm 01 65 meat In Ihem ntese un named sausages only declated 6() meat

Superwhat lUi lui No I1glodlCnls hst on thl bonJe of SUpermall-dllnk wth vnashymin B You can gc t aWilV WIIh soch bad behaviour jf the dnnk is an alto holic bevge bul this poduct VOl(

explictlly says 0 noo-alcohohc m1 dnnk So lhere realty is no excuse We asked the company what they thought they wtIre doing BOO Ihoy very kindly sao it 3S1lt anything to do With them but was down to Ine Danish manufacturers IDanlSh Inlbullbull bew Lid of Copenhagooi flowever yes bull t was a pobiem aod ftgredient ksting was eJlllCted very

SO

-------

Naturally Scots It IS a lew years ago 001 mally of us remember the governments pen NlOO AdgtiSO Olmrrntt eJqlressi9 tt~ il nnoyance with companies who used WlJrds like natural wholemiddot some lid olher _ meallngless phrases Naturnr in parshyticulaf gal them annoyed alld they specifically locommellded nvts 10 the use

01 the word only when the product or ilgJedimiddot enl had 001 beon tampered With axcepi

Vintage pills Casting in on poptja misronceplJOO about Freoch heart dISease rates you can now buy the essel1Cll of ~ INsS of win in the lorm 250mg reltJ WIne extract Each capSUla IS epparently equEl1 to tvutJ glasses of the real

to render it edIJ1e wen ~ now appears that il

Scouaoo alieasl they must be glowing ITlOllOiIlvterldes of fatl~ acids in crofte(s ~aldell$ aiOllg WltIl Qual glIli tl 011 the hl)hlalldsoo sodillTl Igmate mthe lochs And presllm3b1y Ihey hew been making ice cream with It or centuries

How else co~d all tIlese ingledi - ents plus gfyw

110 be deSCtlbed by the Mackie company as beIlg Tha rll1est naluial inQloolems1Id a tradillonal ScxntlSh recipe Fresh hom

tile ScottISh fmm

Ig the sellmg ~nce of (7 gets you ten boWes WIlrth

It might all be acl lOt f II n for the claim tllat Ihe plls may do you gooo Oluld help mammiddot tam a healtby hoan says rne packet d lhe COIJlllallI say~ the C8ps1Jles oonmm he same actIVe lIflJOxidanl components which may help to pomiddot teel cholesterol the blood from oxlshydalion thus 119 to mall1laln a

healll1y heart Aclaim Ii this

IS on tile lace ttl II

quite meaningless oot the ImplicatIOn tllat the lIs can positiYeIy aHOC your health would

Il(Ifly he reSlJlctoo In ptooocts wltho meltJicalllcense These products

PlflSIllrJabiy have no such ~cenS9 as you can be

s the company would be t11I9 rl they had one

IThe Milky Way

Aread says he has been oollll9 10 perstlade Nes tle that Ihelf Mllkytr whi le chocolate buttons ale deSCIihed in a grosslv misleading way on the pocket

The pack boasts MYkybat While CboaJlate Buttons are ubilious_1Id wtUllesome and conlaln the good ness of rull cream milk Thoy falltO QlV9 an Illg reeliet its is althoogh th astalemont which tooks like one but isn Whn chocolale COnmiddot tains vegetable fa~ emulsilior Itcrt in and fIavoonog

Just how nutnlmus iIIld whol some are these sweets Thase tlescpptions are no usually awlmiddot

elated with confectionery prod-shyutts oollhoy me used 10 oescnile nvlk- or at least hay wee in the daVs belDie oaity fat got a bad name M~k is reellmmended bV uu partlCulaly fa lIs ootcillTl and V11amI1 82 jthtanvnl COOlent

Our table beIltlw com es the nU1Jt1lQ1 01 MlfIlt)1lar ButlOns with a glass of mnk The mooufactuters might argue lhat we are unfairly comparg a mgleoceof chocolate WIth a whole glass 01 mi~ and tllat aproper eqlJivalllf1l - 2009 of while chocolatn woold II1VII mudl bena caldum and tluamm fig lut unlorll1ately 200g of chocolat

would elso l)IIe many adults the emil e fetornroonded maximum tat intake fll r dy tD say nothing of tile twentymiddottwo heaped IMpoons 01 gal

bull We nate lhat a new pack01 Mr roor Ilunon is OOIV on ale wltrch gi95 lhe Iu illreelit i st d dops tile cl1Ifn tllat the product is nutntJous III1d wholesom [he pack Slill say rt oootbull the goodshyoess of lui cream ITlIlk

How Milkybar compare with whole milk 1 pack nutlc OOrnl giltlSS mill

Fat 10 Ig Jag SltJ1Ir 183g 96g

Protein 24~ 6~g

CalCium 82rlg 230mq This mn 241l 600ug

go wltrest tedN 0 bull

uwtg E2nII ampThe food Magolre bull _w IB8 bull I

--

The cut-price promotions that promote poor diets

We took each of tlte supermarkets and compared the prodshy

uct ranges tlley were promoting at discount witlt the recshy

ommended purchasing patterns given by the Department

of Health in their National Food Guide - see lalt issue of

this magazine The Guide launched last summer recomshy

mends that a third of our diet should consist of fruit and

vegetables and a third of bread other cereal foods and

potatoes The remaining third covers milk and dairy foods

meat fish and alternatives and lastly the smallest cat gory of all fatty and sugary foods

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

SAINSBURY

-SAFEWAY

In contrast fatty and sugary foods constituted tile largest single category of foods being promoted by all tile supermarkets except Sainsbury All supermarkets fall

short of promoting a range of products in line with

recommended balance of foods

0 Products wIKe 1Md McoteIfnJ to the Detment of Heatths categories

tdI exclude composite food We lito d identical foods in diff8fWl1

pock IIOL 1M composite - bei w pi ond shy

in ORr view allO fatty fooda

KWIK SAVE

TESto

(

iMngEanh The Food Mgazre 8 Jon Marth IS 8 13

checl(out

00 aDelS Once again our sharp-eyed shoppers have scoured the shelves for suspicious statements and misleading messages

Mechanical meat

~ 0

fiJ)~G~s_~oOI -

--shy

TOIl poe 10 Teseo od aclose secshyDod 10 KWlk Save for the hest labell efforts IIlBir ultFHheap meat products

What bullbullbull the fint th IOgledlenU lis~d In the small pllnt 01 Tao Vfuolktll1 IngIefjl8llts Mecharucally recovered _ meJll mechaJICilly IeCDVefed

ptNk I ptNk nlld

Stmtla~v K Saves No frills 8ge[5 00 Gnlls admill mcchal1l call recovered meat III ttle 1Il9edel1l itsls MecttIlically JlllMled meal I11taI1S IhltII Ite CilrcasB has alad had lhe best meat emoved the

14 e llmg Em1h ampThe food Magarma e JanmiddotMaltth 1995

remaining boiS are put 1Il1OJ~ a millelt vicious waShKlg machKle 10 Sllp lhe last slveds 01 soft lissue off til btS This makes a watill) greasy pasta or skJllY gey-whlte atld pownttllly full of bacttlla EnsulO the product cooked thoughoulmiddot says Tesco and Enseno nace of retllemalOs says KWdI Save

legally these sorts of podUCIS must havIl 6() meal Icil COO be mechanically recovered) If lhe freat s mechanically recoVB$l then he IJbel shotAd say SO - although th1s has been testatl only In 0 maglSlrales tmn But atiess than 50p per Ib the poduts mak II1tereslJlg ahematlve 10 IIIIIlIXI cat food

No-name bangers And whtle we e on lIle subJICt 01 low cosl meat we notice SaosbtI) has been porno~ng as aSatnsby [ssenlal e bag of no sausages NOlhlng odd emplillalil 001 say thOl tIlBSe are beef or polk or anytJwtg else The firsllngredlent is SImply Mr In fact wNon we asked Sarosbu(s wltat meat meant lhey admilled the products webullbull actually made of poultry (chlOton or wllsy) boo1 BOd 0011

We were IIltaresled 10 see tllat when the Ss1ges went throUlh the cileckoUithe message came up PORK SAUSAGES and iodOlld 1M same message gets pintatl 00 lIle III slip

Howe Sarosbu(s woukj be breakilllJ the law they labelled hese as pork sausages as

pok sausages must have a mnirTllm 01 65 meat In Ihem ntese un named sausages only declated 6() meat

Superwhat lUi lui No I1glodlCnls hst on thl bonJe of SUpermall-dllnk wth vnashymin B You can gc t aWilV WIIh soch bad behaviour jf the dnnk is an alto holic bevge bul this poduct VOl(

explictlly says 0 noo-alcohohc m1 dnnk So lhere realty is no excuse We asked the company what they thought they wtIre doing BOO Ihoy very kindly sao it 3S1lt anything to do With them but was down to Ine Danish manufacturers IDanlSh Inlbullbull bew Lid of Copenhagooi flowever yes bull t was a pobiem aod ftgredient ksting was eJlllCted very

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Naturally Scots It IS a lew years ago 001 mally of us remember the governments pen NlOO AdgtiSO Olmrrntt eJqlressi9 tt~ il nnoyance with companies who used WlJrds like natural wholemiddot some lid olher _ meallngless phrases Naturnr in parshyticulaf gal them annoyed alld they specifically locommellded nvts 10 the use

01 the word only when the product or ilgJedimiddot enl had 001 beon tampered With axcepi

Vintage pills Casting in on poptja misronceplJOO about Freoch heart dISease rates you can now buy the essel1Cll of ~ INsS of win in the lorm 250mg reltJ WIne extract Each capSUla IS epparently equEl1 to tvutJ glasses of the real

to render it edIJ1e wen ~ now appears that il

Scouaoo alieasl they must be glowing ITlOllOiIlvterldes of fatl~ acids in crofte(s ~aldell$ aiOllg WltIl Qual glIli tl 011 the hl)hlalldsoo sodillTl Igmate mthe lochs And presllm3b1y Ihey hew been making ice cream with It or centuries

How else co~d all tIlese ingledi - ents plus gfyw

110 be deSCtlbed by the Mackie company as beIlg Tha rll1est naluial inQloolems1Id a tradillonal ScxntlSh recipe Fresh hom

tile ScottISh fmm

Ig the sellmg ~nce of (7 gets you ten boWes WIlrth

It might all be acl lOt f II n for the claim tllat Ihe plls may do you gooo Oluld help mammiddot tam a healtby hoan says rne packet d lhe COIJlllallI say~ the C8ps1Jles oonmm he same actIVe lIflJOxidanl components which may help to pomiddot teel cholesterol the blood from oxlshydalion thus 119 to mall1laln a

healll1y heart Aclaim Ii this

IS on tile lace ttl II

quite meaningless oot the ImplicatIOn tllat the lIs can positiYeIy aHOC your health would

Il(Ifly he reSlJlctoo In ptooocts wltho meltJicalllcense These products

PlflSIllrJabiy have no such ~cenS9 as you can be

s the company would be t11I9 rl they had one

IThe Milky Way

Aread says he has been oollll9 10 perstlade Nes tle that Ihelf Mllkytr whi le chocolate buttons ale deSCIihed in a grosslv misleading way on the pocket

The pack boasts MYkybat While CboaJlate Buttons are ubilious_1Id wtUllesome and conlaln the good ness of rull cream milk Thoy falltO QlV9 an Illg reeliet its is althoogh th astalemont which tooks like one but isn Whn chocolale COnmiddot tains vegetable fa~ emulsilior Itcrt in and fIavoonog

Just how nutnlmus iIIld whol some are these sweets Thase tlescpptions are no usually awlmiddot

elated with confectionery prod-shyutts oollhoy me used 10 oescnile nvlk- or at least hay wee in the daVs belDie oaity fat got a bad name M~k is reellmmended bV uu partlCulaly fa lIs ootcillTl and V11amI1 82 jthtanvnl COOlent

Our table beIltlw com es the nU1Jt1lQ1 01 MlfIlt)1lar ButlOns with a glass of mnk The mooufactuters might argue lhat we are unfairly comparg a mgleoceof chocolate WIth a whole glass 01 mi~ and tllat aproper eqlJivalllf1l - 2009 of while chocolatn woold II1VII mudl bena caldum and tluamm fig lut unlorll1ately 200g of chocolat

would elso l)IIe many adults the emil e fetornroonded maximum tat intake fll r dy tD say nothing of tile twentymiddottwo heaped IMpoons 01 gal

bull We nate lhat a new pack01 Mr roor Ilunon is OOIV on ale wltrch gi95 lhe Iu illreelit i st d dops tile cl1Ifn tllat the product is nutntJous III1d wholesom [he pack Slill say rt oootbull the goodshyoess of lui cream ITlIlk

How Milkybar compare with whole milk 1 pack nutlc OOrnl giltlSS mill

Fat 10 Ig Jag SltJ1Ir 183g 96g

Protein 24~ 6~g

CalCium 82rlg 230mq This mn 241l 600ug

go wltrest tedN 0 bull

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checl(out

00 aDelS Once again our sharp-eyed shoppers have scoured the shelves for suspicious statements and misleading messages

Mechanical meat

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TOIl poe 10 Teseo od aclose secshyDod 10 KWlk Save for the hest labell efforts IIlBir ultFHheap meat products

What bullbullbull the fint th IOgledlenU lis~d In the small pllnt 01 Tao Vfuolktll1 IngIefjl8llts Mecharucally recovered _ meJll mechaJICilly IeCDVefed

ptNk I ptNk nlld

Stmtla~v K Saves No frills 8ge[5 00 Gnlls admill mcchal1l call recovered meat III ttle 1Il9edel1l itsls MecttIlically JlllMled meal I11taI1S IhltII Ite CilrcasB has alad had lhe best meat emoved the

14 e llmg Em1h ampThe food Magarma e JanmiddotMaltth 1995

remaining boiS are put 1Il1OJ~ a millelt vicious waShKlg machKle 10 Sllp lhe last slveds 01 soft lissue off til btS This makes a watill) greasy pasta or skJllY gey-whlte atld pownttllly full of bacttlla EnsulO the product cooked thoughoulmiddot says Tesco and Enseno nace of retllemalOs says KWdI Save

legally these sorts of podUCIS must havIl 6() meal Icil COO be mechanically recovered) If lhe freat s mechanically recoVB$l then he IJbel shotAd say SO - although th1s has been testatl only In 0 maglSlrales tmn But atiess than 50p per Ib the poduts mak II1tereslJlg ahematlve 10 IIIIIlIXI cat food

No-name bangers And whtle we e on lIle subJICt 01 low cosl meat we notice SaosbtI) has been porno~ng as aSatnsby [ssenlal e bag of no sausages NOlhlng odd emplillalil 001 say thOl tIlBSe are beef or polk or anytJwtg else The firsllngredlent is SImply Mr In fact wNon we asked Sarosbu(s wltat meat meant lhey admilled the products webullbull actually made of poultry (chlOton or wllsy) boo1 BOd 0011

We were IIltaresled 10 see tllat when the Ss1ges went throUlh the cileckoUithe message came up PORK SAUSAGES and iodOlld 1M same message gets pintatl 00 lIle III slip

Howe Sarosbu(s woukj be breakilllJ the law they labelled hese as pork sausages as

pok sausages must have a mnirTllm 01 65 meat In Ihem ntese un named sausages only declated 6() meat

Superwhat lUi lui No I1glodlCnls hst on thl bonJe of SUpermall-dllnk wth vnashymin B You can gc t aWilV WIIh soch bad behaviour jf the dnnk is an alto holic bevge bul this poduct VOl(

explictlly says 0 noo-alcohohc m1 dnnk So lhere realty is no excuse We asked the company what they thought they wtIre doing BOO Ihoy very kindly sao it 3S1lt anything to do With them but was down to Ine Danish manufacturers IDanlSh Inlbullbull bew Lid of Copenhagooi flowever yes bull t was a pobiem aod ftgredient ksting was eJlllCted very

SO

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Naturally Scots It IS a lew years ago 001 mally of us remember the governments pen NlOO AdgtiSO Olmrrntt eJqlressi9 tt~ il nnoyance with companies who used WlJrds like natural wholemiddot some lid olher _ meallngless phrases Naturnr in parshyticulaf gal them annoyed alld they specifically locommellded nvts 10 the use

01 the word only when the product or ilgJedimiddot enl had 001 beon tampered With axcepi

Vintage pills Casting in on poptja misronceplJOO about Freoch heart dISease rates you can now buy the essel1Cll of ~ INsS of win in the lorm 250mg reltJ WIne extract Each capSUla IS epparently equEl1 to tvutJ glasses of the real

to render it edIJ1e wen ~ now appears that il

Scouaoo alieasl they must be glowing ITlOllOiIlvterldes of fatl~ acids in crofte(s ~aldell$ aiOllg WltIl Qual glIli tl 011 the hl)hlalldsoo sodillTl Igmate mthe lochs And presllm3b1y Ihey hew been making ice cream with It or centuries

How else co~d all tIlese ingledi - ents plus gfyw

110 be deSCtlbed by the Mackie company as beIlg Tha rll1est naluial inQloolems1Id a tradillonal ScxntlSh recipe Fresh hom

tile ScottISh fmm

Ig the sellmg ~nce of (7 gets you ten boWes WIlrth

It might all be acl lOt f II n for the claim tllat Ihe plls may do you gooo Oluld help mammiddot tam a healtby hoan says rne packet d lhe COIJlllallI say~ the C8ps1Jles oonmm he same actIVe lIflJOxidanl components which may help to pomiddot teel cholesterol the blood from oxlshydalion thus 119 to mall1laln a

healll1y heart Aclaim Ii this

IS on tile lace ttl II

quite meaningless oot the ImplicatIOn tllat the lIs can positiYeIy aHOC your health would

Il(Ifly he reSlJlctoo In ptooocts wltho meltJicalllcense These products

PlflSIllrJabiy have no such ~cenS9 as you can be

s the company would be t11I9 rl they had one

IThe Milky Way

Aread says he has been oollll9 10 perstlade Nes tle that Ihelf Mllkytr whi le chocolate buttons ale deSCIihed in a grosslv misleading way on the pocket

The pack boasts MYkybat While CboaJlate Buttons are ubilious_1Id wtUllesome and conlaln the good ness of rull cream milk Thoy falltO QlV9 an Illg reeliet its is althoogh th astalemont which tooks like one but isn Whn chocolale COnmiddot tains vegetable fa~ emulsilior Itcrt in and fIavoonog

Just how nutnlmus iIIld whol some are these sweets Thase tlescpptions are no usually awlmiddot

elated with confectionery prod-shyutts oollhoy me used 10 oescnile nvlk- or at least hay wee in the daVs belDie oaity fat got a bad name M~k is reellmmended bV uu partlCulaly fa lIs ootcillTl and V11amI1 82 jthtanvnl COOlent

Our table beIltlw com es the nU1Jt1lQ1 01 MlfIlt)1lar ButlOns with a glass of mnk The mooufactuters might argue lhat we are unfairly comparg a mgleoceof chocolate WIth a whole glass 01 mi~ and tllat aproper eqlJivalllf1l - 2009 of while chocolatn woold II1VII mudl bena caldum and tluamm fig lut unlorll1ately 200g of chocolat

would elso l)IIe many adults the emil e fetornroonded maximum tat intake fll r dy tD say nothing of tile twentymiddottwo heaped IMpoons 01 gal

bull We nate lhat a new pack01 Mr roor Ilunon is OOIV on ale wltrch gi95 lhe Iu illreelit i st d dops tile cl1Ifn tllat the product is nutntJous III1d wholesom [he pack Slill say rt oootbull the goodshyoess of lui cream ITlIlk

How Milkybar compare with whole milk 1 pack nutlc OOrnl giltlSS mill

Fat 10 Ig Jag SltJ1Ir 183g 96g

Protein 24~ 6~g

CalCium 82rlg 230mq This mn 241l 600ug

go wltrest tedN 0 bull

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Naturally Scots It IS a lew years ago 001 mally of us remember the governments pen NlOO AdgtiSO Olmrrntt eJqlressi9 tt~ il nnoyance with companies who used WlJrds like natural wholemiddot some lid olher _ meallngless phrases Naturnr in parshyticulaf gal them annoyed alld they specifically locommellded nvts 10 the use

01 the word only when the product or ilgJedimiddot enl had 001 beon tampered With axcepi

Vintage pills Casting in on poptja misronceplJOO about Freoch heart dISease rates you can now buy the essel1Cll of ~ INsS of win in the lorm 250mg reltJ WIne extract Each capSUla IS epparently equEl1 to tvutJ glasses of the real

to render it edIJ1e wen ~ now appears that il

Scouaoo alieasl they must be glowing ITlOllOiIlvterldes of fatl~ acids in crofte(s ~aldell$ aiOllg WltIl Qual glIli tl 011 the hl)hlalldsoo sodillTl Igmate mthe lochs And presllm3b1y Ihey hew been making ice cream with It or centuries

How else co~d all tIlese ingledi - ents plus gfyw

110 be deSCtlbed by the Mackie company as beIlg Tha rll1est naluial inQloolems1Id a tradillonal ScxntlSh recipe Fresh hom

tile ScottISh fmm

Ig the sellmg ~nce of (7 gets you ten boWes WIlrth

It might all be acl lOt f II n for the claim tllat Ihe plls may do you gooo Oluld help mammiddot tam a healtby hoan says rne packet d lhe COIJlllallI say~ the C8ps1Jles oonmm he same actIVe lIflJOxidanl components which may help to pomiddot teel cholesterol the blood from oxlshydalion thus 119 to mall1laln a

healll1y heart Aclaim Ii this

IS on tile lace ttl II

quite meaningless oot the ImplicatIOn tllat the lIs can positiYeIy aHOC your health would

Il(Ifly he reSlJlctoo In ptooocts wltho meltJicalllcense These products

PlflSIllrJabiy have no such ~cenS9 as you can be

s the company would be t11I9 rl they had one

IThe Milky Way

Aread says he has been oollll9 10 perstlade Nes tle that Ihelf Mllkytr whi le chocolate buttons ale deSCIihed in a grosslv misleading way on the pocket

The pack boasts MYkybat While CboaJlate Buttons are ubilious_1Id wtUllesome and conlaln the good ness of rull cream milk Thoy falltO QlV9 an Illg reeliet its is althoogh th astalemont which tooks like one but isn Whn chocolale COnmiddot tains vegetable fa~ emulsilior Itcrt in and fIavoonog

Just how nutnlmus iIIld whol some are these sweets Thase tlescpptions are no usually awlmiddot

elated with confectionery prod-shyutts oollhoy me used 10 oescnile nvlk- or at least hay wee in the daVs belDie oaity fat got a bad name M~k is reellmmended bV uu partlCulaly fa lIs ootcillTl and V11amI1 82 jthtanvnl COOlent

Our table beIltlw com es the nU1Jt1lQ1 01 MlfIlt)1lar ButlOns with a glass of mnk The mooufactuters might argue lhat we are unfairly comparg a mgleoceof chocolate WIth a whole glass 01 mi~ and tllat aproper eqlJivalllf1l - 2009 of while chocolatn woold II1VII mudl bena caldum and tluamm fig lut unlorll1ately 200g of chocolat

would elso l)IIe many adults the emil e fetornroonded maximum tat intake fll r dy tD say nothing of tile twentymiddottwo heaped IMpoons 01 gal

bull We nate lhat a new pack01 Mr roor Ilunon is OOIV on ale wltrch gi95 lhe Iu illreelit i st d dops tile cl1Ifn tllat the product is nutntJous III1d wholesom [he pack Slill say rt oootbull the goodshyoess of lui cream ITlIlk

How Milkybar compare with whole milk 1 pack nutlc OOrnl giltlSS mill

Fat 10 Ig Jag SltJ1Ir 183g 96g

Protein 24~ 6~g

CalCium 82rlg 230mq This mn 241l 600ug

go wltrest tedN 0 bull

uwtg E2nII ampThe food Magolre bull _w IB8 bull I

checkout

Spreadingconfusion Do you know how much fat there is in marshygarine or butter or a low fat spread What is the difference between an exta light and an ultra light spread Confused So are we shybut now the EC is laying down new labelling rules for butters margarines and spreads Checkout investigates

When margarine was first manufacshytured as a cheap substitute lor but ter legislation was introduced to premiddot vern unscrupulous manufacturers sIlotmiddotchiJnging co by watermiddot ing down the product Malgarile saiathe law must contain at leasl eO) fat - the same arne 01 lot 8S butter_

Now everything haS changed Manufacturers quile legallll sell us watm instead of full-fal marges in the name of hfilly eating They cant call them margarines but they can calilhem a spread Weve seen an mqiosron of different products dalm-1l[J tD be lower in fat to taste as good as bultor made f on oliveaB sunflower oil or a mixture 111 dairy and vegetab~ tats Thecholee has never been so great or se conlusing

Now the tlJrnpean Ulmrrlssion IECI has decided ~ lime to ley down

me Ies eboul thelaholiIlg of butmiddot ters mOlgafines spreads and blends which will come into effect i1 January 1996 The good news is that aI prodshyucts wilt have to dlsplay tho exaci alMl of fa promlfltllllty 00 the pack - no mere magrnfylng glasses tf1llg 10 read the smail prml of he nUlnt~ labeling 10 find Oul how nruch lall eltJnlllins - mabng I much er fur shoppers to choose lower fat spread with confllence

There will also be slriclllles on how tho product can be described depending OIlIlS lal coOlents and ingredien I lablei

There wll also be seme tighterung up of claims Cu9I1IIy aproduct coo ca~ ILSell l ight n if conlall 60 fat ifor eltBmple Ilttah Golden Craw light) In future II will have to contain less than 41which is haH the fll 01 regular margerines and billmiddot

nulk a a-Jy ~ Inlor niml ~ arlar lJl inul

W oIll ro GtD tim filS with )frOOt milllt r Jl~-fiI

MIllIe _I lim rdljarire ~ rt bm 1llIeo qamS f4 IJIJlIjJllfe

_ fat nmrjrlJ_L1lbJUa Hllf-tJ 1lt1a fgtlt fa JIrim

ter The EC rules WIll also allow a much widOl use of the tms ner andmOlllrine CrerrUy IheS names can only ho used for hAl fal products - alower fal bUlter or margarine has to call iISoH a pread

There also a whole host of torms that manufaclurers cuueotiy USB to describelheil products which wont be permrned by tho new Ies These mdude the ultra light vBIY low or extra fight fa $Jlroads such as Sllvel Gald L I Very low fat Spread (25 fatl flora Extra Lrgltt low Fat Sunflower Spread 1391 and leseo Extra Ligitt Sunflowe Sprd 140) wrch 11111 probably haveto rname themselves as sinply low fat Dr hOhi Producls WIll also be required 10 have at least 10 fa t or to callthamseles something commiddot plelely difierenl So ItS hkoly that Tesco lowest Ever Fat Sunflower Spread 151 wil neild a n change

One qoostton OlfTK1ins urtan

swered What are MAFF and til EC going to do with Iules for nuuitloo claims for oll1edmdsof foods The most recent jllOIlosals berng put fmiddot ward by MAFF wotAd only permil 0 lawfal clrum if prodl had less than 5 f1 The now EC rulllg for falS and spreads CllS across Ihrs by Dliowlng spreads th up to 4DI fal I) be labelled low fat Iis quite ~kemiddot ~ hIlt manufacturers 01 ollr foods WIll nol be happy to accepl low fat as less than5 tal ii low fat marmiddot garine and spreads can cOIIlain up to 4OX fal lind lI1e longer tile wran gng continues lI1e heder ~ WIll ho for confused coumer

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Ad confusion Its nOI jSf claims on poduCiSwhich can conlusa Al lha end 01 last year tier and martlltrme monufaclurers r engaged tn ahigh prOfile slang Ing match trough notionel newspoper adVOlliSOrnenl Bul holl lJUl~flj IVre tIleso ads1

The NaIrOOaI Food Amanee has complained to th~ AltMrtlSlllg Stnndards AlJthOllty Urat Buner Councaadvarts - entitled The Low Fact Spreltld - are misleading and oodermine progess towards healthy lmg by confusing the public even more about lhe relative health benemiddot fits of butter and margarine The ASA Is Nlvestigating the NFAs COnl shyplallll and are expected to report in Ille new year

lit a sepaltatc rulll~ the ArJvertJs~g Standams Autholity has upheld coplamlSagainst Van Den Bergh Foods mBnuflcrurers of flora 101 a press odvett which featured a ooVwith lha Inscnption Body Builde written across his chest

The ASA ruled thai lhe claim was Ippropriate and misleading to Imply tIl1 nora lgtad specific properties fer body bulkling 01 groWlh

611 7181 -m rpr= fut blml

Iebul fat ltId 1Irlfmiddot~b1ml

no bJ or Ugt _ lni lir cr)~IIltre lltW fut a bttbhrd

1lgtiIJ lEII ~ OIl gt1 -~ 16 e liv11v EothampThe Food MogagtllIl e JonMarcli 1995

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the chips down

Potatoes are an ex~ lent source of cheap healtl1t nutrition but when it comes to chips the humble potato can get a bad name The culprit is fat Here is our Checkout guide to the good and the bad of the fast food fries

flm t good news Iheuro st food cIgtarl lUI I now use Ifgetable ro1hor than anllal fats 11 too frImiddot But the bad [lOWS IS tMt two 01 he 100 MDonaids am Burger Kilg U5l parualliV Iykogenalal wgetable OIls which comain trans fany ac~s

last year the Food CoorJlJSOlln rted mat fanS fany acrds ItransshyfalSI ae prodioed when heallgtel g etaill Dis ae hydrooenaed to rnake [hem harder and more suma (see issue 241 Tshll h been Ioond to aClln a lrroIar way to sarurnted fats 11 1) tum body by lI blood cholesterol ioMlls Weso repmed OOW hartlaquo Is 10 lllI ooct how mor oansfats (Ou are 081019

alabie shows (OU how ITlJCh fat you getting WIth you portroo DI fries arxl how milt 01 thallat sa~1-I1lled and how mrd1 1rItt~Is

ne faHiest frtes II our SUfVeI are Kentucky moo CIlden and McDonald wrlh 5Jl1 d 4Bb of lito alenes ooltoog frnIn fat respettrvely kJrger KI~ lallow dose belmd with 44 Wrlll weogh In lito I wllh 37 of no rom fat ne 1tI11aunts of sanrted am trI1stalS

McDonalds 00 kJrger King are much htgher than KfC or VVinpy beuse 01 he typeS 01 cii that the companies use 10 cook their fnes

In 1991 MAfFestJmated that on avernge we 08t aboot 59 of trarlsfalS a day Ou mIllbullbullhaws malone meltfo urn portIOn of McDonalds french mes contain 55g of Imnsfau and a IaIg portron nearly 8g And thats on IDIl of the saruroUld faL ~Is of Imnsfuts lUg KII1g foos ~re 11ly the same th their rogOlar and large mes also exceelting tho average daily 11a1e or transfats

II you add transfats from olher SOIJces 5ldl as mtIrgJnoos tsaJlts

cakll ltfll1 other $1iICKs Just 000 meltishyurn bag 01 ~ies frnIn McllonaI Dr ampge KI~ could booSt thellllnslats 10 doubfe the daily rage

WBtght 01 portloo Igi

MeDbull bull a

Regr Irh Illes 77 167 143 48 3 I 39 MedtlJm ftench file 110 379 203 48 44 55 Large hench h~ 154 533 286 48 62 77 Bouter IJ Small french fries 75 228 113 44 35 Regular fteneIl fnes 116 3~ 174 ~4 53 large frenellls 142 433 Zl3 44 65 KFC Regular foos 105 272 lS7 50 13 06 lalge hies 150 ~15 226 5Jl1 1 a 10

W Regular ch s 100 265 110 37 1 7 roegIJlble Clrlitlrs portion 75 199 B25 37 1 3 gliQible [)ala supplied bI m~nthcw8IS

We thin all last lood comp3l1lilS should bJI at ways of rerucing the amoont of tat paniwlt1I1y salllaled amp tronsfut In heir proltltcts MeOemids say Ihat ne yea they will be ch~i~ to an orl vth res Sillllatmiddot ad fat and tlanslats brJt could nol tel us I mrd1 those retU~oos 11I be Ctnently MeOooaids cis Wliarl 3Jl1 transfalS

The GoldenAulo lorheallhret dllllS is 10 choose big nas -the large he dltp tho less oil OUgel compiled to potato Irs tho rmifo thmw fIllnch fII3 which soak the fal Coom9 your own at home may also be a herJllhier and cheapet optiOfL A)IIlica1 110g portion 0 McCains Oven Chip coot ~st 569 01 fat - thets nearly 15g Jess fatlhan the same WBlght of McDonalds hmch ~ies And if you

French fries fat facts

Caiolties FaV ealonas SatUfated IaV pomon portion IfOm tat [lIlrtiOl1 IKeats) (gl 191

lhrIk low fat fries oonT ram tasteYr1se then you cwld be for a prise McCarls 0Ia1 Chips were recently rmed 2nd out 01 8 for taste in a 88C Vegetillian MBgIlNIB taste testol ovenchrps

AtvpicalllOg PQrtKlO of Sainsluys oven thrls has ooly athird of the fat of me same portioo srzc of MeOemld fnes though nyou go fill SalewdVS Ivnoritlln french Fries youl be gnl~ as much fat as iMllBge McOooalltls portlOl1 (20g per II Og [gtlrmiddot nl

TIt IrtlUr do chi Ute kealtlierl

Tensfatsl portion

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The Nursel) Food ~ Book t A llvelv and practical book piIII alllSues relallng 10 food nurmJ()n iTygrene and mulucultwal needs W11h ups reapes and sample menus aloog With cooleing gardening and edue tionill aetlviti mllOling lood Exeellem handbook lor nurs ms and alljllne e1111 for VII choldr fl99 mclrrdlll jlampp

Food AduHeration Apeneuatill expose of the shocking slilte 01 food QUa~LY in 8111am reealmiddot 9 1he facts 00 additives pestiodes food poisong and l~rJit loo pound5 95 m pampp

Childrens Food Teeliling sks sweeter than a doogh nul Fish fl1gers less lItan ha~ fish Beet burg made with pOltkl A book packed wilh trade secrots and sound advice pound4 75 nc pampp

Fast Food Fads Full 01 uselullilbes 01 nutnlS aod addr olong WIth bull WlrQue took inlo Ihe secreUV world of fast toods pound595c pampp

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Food Irradiation Good food ooasnt need I~adiotlll et lIle UK has now lega1sad Iha promiddot OOSS re50 inc pampp

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California

Intheheart of an UIlmlSshytakably suburban lIhshyooumood in southernsuburban Calilolria where shoj)shy

bull armzng Michael Abelman runs Fairview Gardens Farm in Goleta California which proshyduces over 100 varieties of organic fruits and vegetables and serves as an educational and community centre Here he reports on how encroachshying Californian surburbia has brought new life to the farm

Michael Abelmans book from the Good Earth Traditional farming methods In a new age is pubmiddot lished in the UK by Thames and Hdson Price [1495 Available from the Soil Association bookshyshop aid other bookshops

ping mallsand fast lood resta nts abound 001 smal farm has end-ed moving through the seasons as It has lor the last hundred year It IS

a ly ing remnant of an old I3rch lhat once extended fOI miles around alIny honicuiturmiddot

al alise growing hllldled diHent fruits d vegetJbles 10 a year-mood success1On 1st exit the eewayal FalMew Ave-8middot I lell our VISitors past lour gas stations and tlwough the thleo ~1ffic frgllts Aright tuminto tiraquo librnry parlri1g lot and up our dllve and theyIS In ollClmer OrId where peach trees gIVe WiIf to stately ocados aoo rows of stmwiJershyIIOS III Into the Willowy forest of tho asparagus field

As the lemon a~ walnut groves of the past were replaced With tract homes our smal farm hs become eo Island Almost overroghl a whole comshymunity of people i1 box houses were plopped OOMl around us And although the smell of my ctlmpost and tho enwof my roosters oHoooed the urban senshyi5tles of OUI -nelghbours we frxosad on the 0PllOltti6llty to educate and to pmYide fresh food to UIiS new poprJiaoon

It ook Ume for our new neJghbours to dISCover the farm The cIlildreo were the eaJly explCKers IVestigating our chJCkens the potential for hlrle and go seelc In our chards Their parenlS folowed buVlng an octaSional orange or a headof lettuce Irom OUI ploWCS srand which IS filled daily WIth fnits IIarOOI eggs honey alld besh baked ead We Md lost the battle to preservo the farmshylaM around us allO thedeep topsoi of this volley But the ccmrTUlitV that had coroo in its pece were in thlll own way mating aCQf1nectioo

The slandald cash for food exchange wasnt lJIIough We wanted to go fur ther If VIIS farm WlIS to b spared lhen we needed 10 eswblrsh adeepel and mcws responstJle I lationshp bet 11

thos who were eating Oil lood and the land thot as producing IL We needed a way r people to begin 10 Identiry with this plMe to see It as their own lO wanllo protect and preserve it

I no realy I ed the teon Comtrllnlty Supported AgrrCllhure as rt seems 10 inplv that the convnunity is SUPlKtJng tho farm i ke some SOI1 of V~are program for sma farms whenin fact tile

suPflOIl Is trIlt1 But It was a mooal that seemed to address ex concems lor tho future Iha oays descnbed It as a retum to a foon of socral aJflc~tt V1len OUI members buy ther Stlales at tho beginning of the season theV WOW In theu lot with the form good yealt or bad tIley are nooosheltJ bV orr labours but a~o shale 11 OUl nls

Convnunitv Supported Agricuttrr8 can II on nrall) different levels f-ol US IllS mole Ullnst a box of food each ~vee1 or al1 advance paymenl schenre We s~gl to xpaIlil our mindsd those 01 ~rr members by 9 to put the WOld crunlty backto ComrnlIlity SupportBll AgIilte Glowing the fooo tlaving It pocked Iresh d I1lildy eacfl week providing reapcs 300 Mf a Iwekly newsteuer are Impo~iIflt steps Our coomg classes poWekdrners SUIIr concerts falT11 lours and meetings go a littla frother We hear from0memers that thfood is lantastJC Ulat theil crJerr are oa~ng IItabies that they woold have before aoo that the health IS belaquool

They ha CErtIIlnI)t oome to an rmportllnt awareness about lhelr lood and the noshment 0 thorr lamils But CoIMlunity SuppMcd Agtlcunure can do more to frv up to ts me Those

1o1l0 eat the lood SI become aqlIy responsible for how and where that food comes from They need to make the connection betweert fooo altO the soil to honour the whole proal trom the held to

plate I st~ face the dtystruggla to pay thebills the

constant concern over whether ~ farm tan CCIltJlmiddot ue under dle urban pressUiles around us wall sa leal Stabrilty small aglicult1onl~seS like orrsl Will be - nowlodgeltJ lor tile Importatt lole we plaV oot fIIst as puM)cws of nesh food but as anchors in a SOCIety that has become felugees from the natural world

There are those smai renders that made some IJIOIIOSS I see it 11 the complete iII1d total hap~ss 01 a clgt4d that has fIIst tOUled tile farm WIth caTtlt or strawbe in therr handor In the COlrvnertts of OUI members

100 Slrav1ierries ate perletrioo You sholiid ha bull f fest Wlih yorus lInd tire super_hi There IS no comparison The Ifmucs IS fluffy rnsp 000pJenfe lui The loose spJoelgt rs lUst JfI()UfJI1 fD add fO the weeks salads

his program IS tile besf [tOtle IS SJ1JIlrng and ir Igtgh spmrs IVhetllOOtJIS pided up and aales relumed IIBI lit pari oflhe falm someiroll You and yoon -oN the IS dIe gleallf 8pprecialed

~II ElIIlh ampThe Food Magame Marcli t995 t9

- -

The Nursel) Food ~ Book t A llvelv and practical book piIII alllSues relallng 10 food nurmJ()n iTygrene and mulucultwal needs W11h ups reapes and sample menus aloog With cooleing gardening and edue tionill aetlviti mllOling lood Exeellem handbook lor nurs ms and alljllne e1111 for VII choldr fl99 mclrrdlll jlampp

Food AduHeration Apeneuatill expose of the shocking slilte 01 food QUa~LY in 8111am reealmiddot 9 1he facts 00 additives pestiodes food poisong and l~rJit loo pound5 95 m pampp

Childrens Food Teeliling sks sweeter than a doogh nul Fish fl1gers less lItan ha~ fish Beet burg made with pOltkl A book packed wilh trade secrots and sound advice pound4 75 nc pampp

Fast Food Fads Full 01 uselullilbes 01 nutnlS aod addr olong WIth bull WlrQue took inlo Ihe secreUV world of fast toods pound595c pampp

I t II rsfrX ~ H10d Hool

10_ bull ~

amp ~ i

~~ r

~ ~ ~lM)D llllLmtTKl1

r~Yit _--J -shy-shy--

BACK ISSUES OF THE FOGO MAGJllNE nOW al redocad price only pound2 Inc plip Send for c~rehensive index 01 the news and learures lor all badl Ies Cheques paVabl to The Food Commrssion Sd your ord to Pubcalions The Food COmmton 3rd RoO 5 It Wot1ipSUeellon oon ECZA 2BH

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I L

Additivesmiddot Your Complete Survival Guide Stdllhe best reference book with ltOO1prol~ive tanles and summaries 01 lIle donee en the saferl of each adhlive Speciallice oolV pound350 me pampp

Food Irradiation Good food ooasnt need I~adiotlll et lIle UK has now lega1sad Iha promiddot OOSS re50 inc pampp

Food for Hea1th CIt

Wealth The acclallTted report hom Ille SocialiSt Health Association pound450 Inc (lIrp

Additives chart published Iy [hannel 4 f2 Inc pampp

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Global letter

California

Intheheart of an UIlmlSshytakably suburban lIhshyooumood in southernsuburban Calilolria where shoj)shy

bull armzng Michael Abelman runs Fairview Gardens Farm in Goleta California which proshyduces over 100 varieties of organic fruits and vegetables and serves as an educational and community centre Here he reports on how encroachshying Californian surburbia has brought new life to the farm

Michael Abelmans book from the Good Earth Traditional farming methods In a new age is pubmiddot lished in the UK by Thames and Hdson Price [1495 Available from the Soil Association bookshyshop aid other bookshops

ping mallsand fast lood resta nts abound 001 smal farm has end-ed moving through the seasons as It has lor the last hundred year It IS

a ly ing remnant of an old I3rch lhat once extended fOI miles around alIny honicuiturmiddot

al alise growing hllldled diHent fruits d vegetJbles 10 a year-mood success1On 1st exit the eewayal FalMew Ave-8middot I lell our VISitors past lour gas stations and tlwough the thleo ~1ffic frgllts Aright tuminto tiraquo librnry parlri1g lot and up our dllve and theyIS In ollClmer OrId where peach trees gIVe WiIf to stately ocados aoo rows of stmwiJershyIIOS III Into the Willowy forest of tho asparagus field

As the lemon a~ walnut groves of the past were replaced With tract homes our smal farm hs become eo Island Almost overroghl a whole comshymunity of people i1 box houses were plopped OOMl around us And although the smell of my ctlmpost and tho enwof my roosters oHoooed the urban senshyi5tles of OUI -nelghbours we frxosad on the 0PllOltti6llty to educate and to pmYide fresh food to UIiS new poprJiaoon

It ook Ume for our new neJghbours to dISCover the farm The cIlildreo were the eaJly explCKers IVestigating our chJCkens the potential for hlrle and go seelc In our chards Their parenlS folowed buVlng an octaSional orange or a headof lettuce Irom OUI ploWCS srand which IS filled daily WIth fnits IIarOOI eggs honey alld besh baked ead We Md lost the battle to preservo the farmshylaM around us allO thedeep topsoi of this volley But the ccmrTUlitV that had coroo in its pece were in thlll own way mating aCQf1nectioo

The slandald cash for food exchange wasnt lJIIough We wanted to go fur ther If VIIS farm WlIS to b spared lhen we needed 10 eswblrsh adeepel and mcws responstJle I lationshp bet 11

thos who were eating Oil lood and the land thot as producing IL We needed a way r people to begin 10 Identiry with this plMe to see It as their own lO wanllo protect and preserve it

I no realy I ed the teon Comtrllnlty Supported AgrrCllhure as rt seems 10 inplv that the convnunity is SUPlKtJng tho farm i ke some SOI1 of V~are program for sma farms whenin fact tile

suPflOIl Is trIlt1 But It was a mooal that seemed to address ex concems lor tho future Iha oays descnbed It as a retum to a foon of socral aJflc~tt V1len OUI members buy ther Stlales at tho beginning of the season theV WOW In theu lot with the form good yealt or bad tIley are nooosheltJ bV orr labours but a~o shale 11 OUl nls

Convnunitv Supported Agricuttrr8 can II on nrall) different levels f-ol US IllS mole Ullnst a box of food each ~vee1 or al1 advance paymenl schenre We s~gl to xpaIlil our mindsd those 01 ~rr members by 9 to put the WOld crunlty backto ComrnlIlity SupportBll AgIilte Glowing the fooo tlaving It pocked Iresh d I1lildy eacfl week providing reapcs 300 Mf a Iwekly newsteuer are Impo~iIflt steps Our coomg classes poWekdrners SUIIr concerts falT11 lours and meetings go a littla frother We hear from0memers that thfood is lantastJC Ulat theil crJerr are oa~ng IItabies that they woold have before aoo that the health IS belaquool

They ha CErtIIlnI)t oome to an rmportllnt awareness about lhelr lood and the noshment 0 thorr lamils But CoIMlunity SuppMcd Agtlcunure can do more to frv up to ts me Those

1o1l0 eat the lood SI become aqlIy responsible for how and where that food comes from They need to make the connection betweert fooo altO the soil to honour the whole proal trom the held to

plate I st~ face the dtystruggla to pay thebills the

constant concern over whether ~ farm tan CCIltJlmiddot ue under dle urban pressUiles around us wall sa leal Stabrilty small aglicult1onl~seS like orrsl Will be - nowlodgeltJ lor tile Importatt lole we plaV oot fIIst as puM)cws of nesh food but as anchors in a SOCIety that has become felugees from the natural world

There are those smai renders that made some IJIOIIOSS I see it 11 the complete iII1d total hap~ss 01 a clgt4d that has fIIst tOUled tile farm WIth caTtlt or strawbe in therr handor In the COlrvnertts of OUI members

100 Slrav1ierries ate perletrioo You sholiid ha bull f fest Wlih yorus lInd tire super_hi There IS no comparison The Ifmucs IS fluffy rnsp 000pJenfe lui The loose spJoelgt rs lUst JfI()UfJI1 fD add fO the weeks salads

his program IS tile besf [tOtle IS SJ1JIlrng and ir Igtgh spmrs IVhetllOOtJIS pided up and aales relumed IIBI lit pari oflhe falm someiroll You and yoon -oN the IS dIe gleallf 8pprecialed

~II ElIIlh ampThe Food Magame Marcli t995 t9

Global letter

California

Intheheart of an UIlmlSshytakably suburban lIhshyooumood in southernsuburban Calilolria where shoj)shy

bull armzng Michael Abelman runs Fairview Gardens Farm in Goleta California which proshyduces over 100 varieties of organic fruits and vegetables and serves as an educational and community centre Here he reports on how encroachshying Californian surburbia has brought new life to the farm

Michael Abelmans book from the Good Earth Traditional farming methods In a new age is pubmiddot lished in the UK by Thames and Hdson Price [1495 Available from the Soil Association bookshyshop aid other bookshops

ping mallsand fast lood resta nts abound 001 smal farm has end-ed moving through the seasons as It has lor the last hundred year It IS

a ly ing remnant of an old I3rch lhat once extended fOI miles around alIny honicuiturmiddot

al alise growing hllldled diHent fruits d vegetJbles 10 a year-mood success1On 1st exit the eewayal FalMew Ave-8middot I lell our VISitors past lour gas stations and tlwough the thleo ~1ffic frgllts Aright tuminto tiraquo librnry parlri1g lot and up our dllve and theyIS In ollClmer OrId where peach trees gIVe WiIf to stately ocados aoo rows of stmwiJershyIIOS III Into the Willowy forest of tho asparagus field

As the lemon a~ walnut groves of the past were replaced With tract homes our smal farm hs become eo Island Almost overroghl a whole comshymunity of people i1 box houses were plopped OOMl around us And although the smell of my ctlmpost and tho enwof my roosters oHoooed the urban senshyi5tles of OUI -nelghbours we frxosad on the 0PllOltti6llty to educate and to pmYide fresh food to UIiS new poprJiaoon

It ook Ume for our new neJghbours to dISCover the farm The cIlildreo were the eaJly explCKers IVestigating our chJCkens the potential for hlrle and go seelc In our chards Their parenlS folowed buVlng an octaSional orange or a headof lettuce Irom OUI ploWCS srand which IS filled daily WIth fnits IIarOOI eggs honey alld besh baked ead We Md lost the battle to preservo the farmshylaM around us allO thedeep topsoi of this volley But the ccmrTUlitV that had coroo in its pece were in thlll own way mating aCQf1nectioo

The slandald cash for food exchange wasnt lJIIough We wanted to go fur ther If VIIS farm WlIS to b spared lhen we needed 10 eswblrsh adeepel and mcws responstJle I lationshp bet 11

thos who were eating Oil lood and the land thot as producing IL We needed a way r people to begin 10 Identiry with this plMe to see It as their own lO wanllo protect and preserve it

I no realy I ed the teon Comtrllnlty Supported AgrrCllhure as rt seems 10 inplv that the convnunity is SUPlKtJng tho farm i ke some SOI1 of V~are program for sma farms whenin fact tile

suPflOIl Is trIlt1 But It was a mooal that seemed to address ex concems lor tho future Iha oays descnbed It as a retum to a foon of socral aJflc~tt V1len OUI members buy ther Stlales at tho beginning of the season theV WOW In theu lot with the form good yealt or bad tIley are nooosheltJ bV orr labours but a~o shale 11 OUl nls

Convnunitv Supported Agricuttrr8 can II on nrall) different levels f-ol US IllS mole Ullnst a box of food each ~vee1 or al1 advance paymenl schenre We s~gl to xpaIlil our mindsd those 01 ~rr members by 9 to put the WOld crunlty backto ComrnlIlity SupportBll AgIilte Glowing the fooo tlaving It pocked Iresh d I1lildy eacfl week providing reapcs 300 Mf a Iwekly newsteuer are Impo~iIflt steps Our coomg classes poWekdrners SUIIr concerts falT11 lours and meetings go a littla frother We hear from0memers that thfood is lantastJC Ulat theil crJerr are oa~ng IItabies that they woold have before aoo that the health IS belaquool

They ha CErtIIlnI)t oome to an rmportllnt awareness about lhelr lood and the noshment 0 thorr lamils But CoIMlunity SuppMcd Agtlcunure can do more to frv up to ts me Those

1o1l0 eat the lood SI become aqlIy responsible for how and where that food comes from They need to make the connection betweert fooo altO the soil to honour the whole proal trom the held to

plate I st~ face the dtystruggla to pay thebills the

constant concern over whether ~ farm tan CCIltJlmiddot ue under dle urban pressUiles around us wall sa leal Stabrilty small aglicult1onl~seS like orrsl Will be - nowlodgeltJ lor tile Importatt lole we plaV oot fIIst as puM)cws of nesh food but as anchors in a SOCIety that has become felugees from the natural world

There are those smai renders that made some IJIOIIOSS I see it 11 the complete iII1d total hap~ss 01 a clgt4d that has fIIst tOUled tile farm WIth caTtlt or strawbe in therr handor In the COlrvnertts of OUI members

100 Slrav1ierries ate perletrioo You sholiid ha bull f fest Wlih yorus lInd tire super_hi There IS no comparison The Ifmucs IS fluffy rnsp 000pJenfe lui The loose spJoelgt rs lUst JfI()UfJI1 fD add fO the weeks salads

his program IS tile besf [tOtle IS SJ1JIlrng and ir Igtgh spmrs IVhetllOOtJIS pided up and aales relumed IIBI lit pari oflhe falm someiroll You and yoon -oN the IS dIe gleallf 8pprecialed

~II ElIIlh ampThe Food Magame Marcli t995 t9

Food and society

bull ac lng pover an~ ~iet A new infonnation pack from the National Food Alliance aims to help advice workers improve the nutrition of low inwme families Tim Lobstein takes a look inside

ealth taMot be guaantld by Ille health services alone Much ill heallll can be prevented and OI1e unponant step IS to eat a gooltI diet Thos is tJlId1y news vet stll there

are enormous barncrs to enSUfing that every one roo wants to do so tan OCtually eat such an Optl mum diet

Advice WOIkers CCmmtJMY mkElls even comshymll1ity health WIlrlers who rue wurklng With peomiddot pie on inwlncomes 11111 be iIWlIJe that it IS often SlJch poople who despIte thill best affon find It most difficul t to eat healtholy The reasOI1S 10lt thiS ae dIVerse bul inckJde a lackof atcess to good Qualty affOiClable prodlJce as well os lack 01 skllbullbull lacili~es at1d aelhaps as a leSltJ11 lack 01motrvatlOn

How can Illese baUltltS tochong be OVermiddot coe node 10 pomote belle heaah V1lU dOl1t of COlose have to b ahealth mker ImpulVIltQ ltCess 10 healthy food does nOI equil spechst t9 Indeed In Cllllam respects It cannol be rnposed by OUISICeltS oe proleSSlOllills at a~ people Will only Improve their dlelS If they want to make such changes themselves

Having ecognised tillS the NaMnal Rtod

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Alhance hasprodlJced a packaimed at advice and suppon wOlkefswho wek directly with low income famishylies grvmg Ideas and information to assISt clrems In genlllllllle slm of food the janIs themselveswant Healtlty eallltg adVICe is llOt promishynent The main thrust ~f the packIS a enes 01 docmelt1ts describing locol

projecls and rnUalllgtes whICh have been tried acoss Ille Uted Killlldom gMng OVe

80 contact addesses and providing a checkshyirst 01 points 10 be considered when sattmg up a pOjOct

One of tt--e rTlarn messages 10 come bom tne load Prolects IS the rmponance of mlmav Ir food choree People can lace eal difficulties affllld9 a bealtlry dlI and successfcj prOtects ecogoose thai pIang fo health may need 10 be ubodl ed 10 the need 10 econol11ls PrOjeCls which J1Ve occess to food at lOWe cost starld a good chance 01 success Projects which tan hep to Imprlll mcome levels thOlgh for example supportrrg bonefit claims arc also Invaluable - aoo Q tillS end a section 01 the pack gives detls of the beneshynts which Call help ImpOve dllll Some detalson LETS (lDcal EcollOmy Tradmg Schemes prOCI are also gwen

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Scottish initiatives

Daiu Kilen rem lID mDVIS to pnnate belhlly diets ill ScotIaIlll

Chaired by Professor Phlip James the Sconish Diet Action Group was launched by the Secretary of State folt Scotlaod and aims to produce eproshy9rnmrre of action 10 meet d~tary targets for the Sconlsh popelation by November 1996 Ahe ongimiddot nally beirYJ proposed as the Sconish Food Commission the group has been denied sOlJghtshyafter powers to subsiliise toods and intervena in the market and instead the group must rely on voluntary meansof encouraging healthier ealing including educalJOn markellngacd wor~ng with industry to alIBI the formulalron oIlODds

The targets for healthy diets were themse~ves altered by the Secretary of Stale following represenshytations from the food industry salt reductions are to be smaller than Professor James had originally rer bffifneuronded in The Seorri- Diet last year and aWlts win be encouraged to stabilise their consumption of sugar rather than reduce it

There were few SI(lns tl11food producers were linirg up to preselll the Scotlish poOlic wilth quality food at affordable DrlCes As ever va were remindshyed hal Scotlands nan ral arder is tilled wilth excelmiddot lent produce but most of lhis is destined to nm fTIilIIets 10 lie lesl of EuroP EqlJdly not more tim aquaner of food CQrlSUfOO(j in Scotnd comes fromwrthin the Sconish food sector and lthe farming ana ~ocessing h t does take place in Scotland

uses imported icgredients and proouds The general viMof food producers was that

people ne longer wish to cook and we shoUd ook to Los Angeles and other places where hous are now bellllJ built WIthout middotterens 1he teachi~ of coolcing skis was dismissed as NeandertJilj rc1aI gia wishHlQ to ChampJl women in perpe~ sLlIery 10 the darooltllr oven

Discussion of lthe rule of rmiors tHIWr1 i~rYJ marketing ond So3Ie 01 itJer foodswas lin ad to a preSe ion by Mr Safeway SIr Alsta ~t who annoLocad that bull polo ~ 19 sVS cleckout 1111 fnit OJId III run sane stOffiS IElt

year Yet retaners are not wil to establish 3 rwasshyenee In som9 of Scotlands most ltEprMId area what suppol1 can theygive to coTll1U1ly llaltnNes to BflSUle that quality attnrdable food reaches Ole pe0shy

ple 1110 nlOSl need It The Scottish Diet Action Gr nciJdegt both

industry and comrnunny representdlives W wail to se how II wili lackle the thOnlY ISSUe 01 whethel poopl In poverw have adeqJate irromes to erubIe them to 113 arcess to ani to corSl11C ahealtll dt It 15 possible lIPl the ~ee mnet food canshynel prevent the escatltrng IICKImce of Milly disar middot ders esperra mong lhe poorest and elene11 01 govemrTlOlll irteMr1lioo rTgt1( be needed in the interests of the IlIIt1 helth

LMOII tanh ampThe food Maganre bull Jan MiW1 1995 bull Zt

National Food Alliance News

NTF Is it forceful enough Ten Nutrition Task Force (NTF) project teams are now developing policies which should help to reach the Health of the Nation dietary targets Cause for celebration Yes and no While some are making progress others are making heavy weather

The NFA cenlj brOlJ11t togeth pub he IIteres1 representHTlIeS to exchange onformaoon and Id on hllW to boog all Prolect lams to theleI 01 the best

Some of the new prOfeCl teams are in actboJoups of the old worlong palJeS and so - sinoe they te been meeung hu some time - are qurte a long way down the road The team on hospitalcatong one un example nd it ha ealV produro wah nUllgt

uon gudelfts lor hospital crtellll which Id be ptjllishid In rly t995

Onr olect teams only hld thet meeoog rn Nb 1991 They Will ed to cr qUM fltenselV to make lgteadway before Octob1f t995 which is when the Nutntion Tast i schedtOed to hve rt next - and pershyhaPS last - meeting This was not a prcspect rehSMd by arry 01 Ih purioc int1fest rep~tatNB brougrllOjletnshyer by the Nf AIl 1 Oecambel

All agJeed that It IVa VEY unhkely lhilt I tt t could be wootd hJye been achBived that date Mochanlsms for UlIlI09 rOe IWI1r of the Nuunion Tast ~ca - dnO the Ta~ Force IlSeH - ~ cenat to be an issue al rutJae meel shyinl) Repltesetlttrros mgSIMl1 of the len tems 1)1 present and othshycom crocems I3ISed IlCluded bull la 01 to-crdlrralJon betwefl the te3mi Aprng-pOng game ~ aheacJy dng lIIlh for plbullbull one team belrewrg thil[ an ISSU is being dealt WIth arrotle team but in fact it ~ beogtg COMed by rether bull Continued reltur1ance ro Il0mote healthy dons as a whole Mentlers of some leans- are tryiIg to restrict the locus to fat alone even thoujh the NIT has~eadv agreed Ihot slaJc1 sugar solt and other nutnllllts las lI01ed iii the COMA report on Ore[oy ReInce

Valuesl are also inpcrtoll1t bull An assumptIOn by some teams tha coolidentiaity Is the nOInn rather tha the exceptiOfL So fal [ire NTF has heen an xGeliOll model of 0 gavemmen with the va moJOOlV 01 backgrltXlld paJ)ers and monules in the ptjllic domain POOlic I1tefes1 representatives re clear that th1s I) of IoIlIIJIg shOlJd continue

Custome demanrl- or ~ck of n shywas anothef thorny issue which arose In aral teams SI podllic i1tenest reprbullmas despaa-oo of theargushyment - 01 too chen heard from some food lIdust) presentatlves - that since consumers did oot _t healllYy food then mmpanies uk IO)t prOlde It and sLBlie mthemarksl place These Mgt1nos seem oblNlou to the argument that cnnsumefS cannot press the demand in the flBlket lilies a heitIt product IS 1t~l e to bUf cr reect

For the reclXd the DlTent kf Ol

prOlect learnS IS as lollows bull 9uidelOles for erucaUOfl1ll materials bull meal signposoog bull hospital ta[eMg

bull school mealsplowJers bull fast feOOs and restaurants bull tminmg lor caterers bull pmt dewIopmeot bull proltia1 promotion bull prim) ho1th re Iovo me

Notable gaps 111 thiS ist ate food atIa1iltrng - wtrh rsnains th pr~nte of an Wdonnal gmup - and lIillOn labeiolg Although the Informal group en food -tiSllghas so fat mel only OIU in July 1994 the NFAs advettlsing working party IS maklr19 sure Ihatitre ~sue rs kept hl1l on the agergtshyda lsee page 41 The rkrlg partyis panrel cmm 01 me aspoolS of the liuntura revitJv 011 ilovert is irJ

whiCh is being funoed by MAFF On rutrition labelling aJoint working

pany 01 Nulntion rast Fer and Food Ad~ Corrmlee membel hasbeen meetmg and MAFF is funding yet more researth IIto ClnS4lmar understanciPo of ClJrrlllt nUlInitm labelng It IS flOt

entirely clear why m-e research ~ ded nto thIS aspect of lire pmblem In the meanvilile consumerS cClltmue to be d1lOd bull simple sch wiId1 might help them choore ahalthy die[

New members The Scottish Food Poverty Network aills to aise tho prolile of food

polllfty sIn SCOlland fill Ulilgo the exchallllB of infollTlashyllOnoo skills aroo1lllle lood 0middot

ops cornmUfli ly fllltrolOllI$ts and vol shyJmla) Q100PS whICh are Its memshyboers TIl e British Association for the Study ot Community Dentistry undertakes rsenell into dem1 igtllbllc healthfIlI promoles oral ~Blth mclutllng rtietilry aspects Qf ora health It is a speetalrst society in delll1 igtllbllc lgtealth iii elatTOn to tile Royal College of Surgeons lE1lglandJ 00 has around 115(] memhers wOfbng In the NHS and in urwesll

Ihnion 1 Food AtliJnce lrd Floor 5middot11 Worship Street todon EC2A 2BH Ie[ 07t 6282442 I 07t 6289329

Officers Professor P11l1lp James ~PrBSld~nt) ehey Carmo lCrallllli1l1l Jael ioI1er ~reasurerl

Jeane lnlllJiiold ISecreUl~ Ii Co-(Jidinatol1f

SltinlantBa MofltailAsst Co-ordlrliltorl

Pip CoiIInQs lAss Co-OIdt1

~_U~IIf Jhe Ndtional Food AI lIRe is an asmciil- I oorl at vOOJntari pcCiasslonal heallh onsutner and other public interest organ-

IsatIOns Its purpose is to develOP tood I

ond agrICulture policy II I ardel to Improve the health of the general pobt mcrease Mwiedgc and appreciation of the way in

Who iell food is produced and distributed I

Mid the effect thiScan have on human alth and the enVIronment

This pg has been contributed by the National Food Alliance

1 Action and Information on Sugars Association of School Health Education

Co-ordinators Baby Milk Action British Association for the Study of

Community Dentistry Br itish Dental Association Hritish Hesrt FDundation 8ritish Organic Farmers Campaign for Real Ale Caroline Walker Trust Childrens Society Chrislian Aid Common Ground Community Nutrition Group Coronary Prevention Group Council for the Protectj01 of RIallngand Olet Breaker tIm Rllm Aeserlrd Cfrltre f ood AdditiIJ es Campaign Te l l i ~ Fno~ Commisaln Friends of lhn farth Geoo1JcSFomiddotum 13MB remains General Union) Srren Network HDnry Doubleday ~search Association Hyperi1CtMChlldrom Support Group lrlst it1Jl9 Of European Environmental I PoiICV Unlon McCarrison Society Maternity AAilnoo NotD1aI AssccalIDn QI T~acters of HCne I ttMOllIIts ilndTeoIwJOogy NatoM1l Contsdllal ion of P -en tmiddotl eade AssDCI3110ns NatDJa1Famws Union Nallilliial Fadgrntrdn Df Cit Fmms Natllml federwtton at Consumer Groups Na1Dll1 fedBTUbDn of Womens I InstrLJlo PestiCides Tlltsl FVal ArraltJJral andAlIlDd I Wo_ Un~ IlGWUI Scotti f ood Poverty NBtW(]fk Socie1) of ~Ith ~atlon and Health I Prorrmtm SpeCiBlilts Soil Associalion Vegelari3n SOCIety WCrllBn Farming Union World Cancw Research Fund lserrus If~ MFA British Dietetic Association British Medical Association ConsUl1l8l Association Filcult( of publn Health Medrcine of the RoyJl Cdmiddotege of Physicians Guild fODd WrIter s middot lealth Educatan AuthClnt r Institute of Trading Standatds I Admlnlstrallon Niltionill Cortsuner Council National Fanrrn tol CHD Prevention Royal Society of Medicine Food and

Health Forum Royal Society for the Promotion of Health SAfE Alliance Scottish Consumer Council r rades Union Congress Vega Research Welsh Consumer Council

ZZ e IMng Eanh ampTho rood MagalllO e Jan-March tim

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bull Ferguslie Womens Food Poverty Group Paisley Asurvey by a drop in centre on a lowshyincome housing estate in 1993 found the majority of families eating chips every day and half eating frurt only once a week or less Local shop prices were very high comshypared with the city centre so a group opened a creche to take care of the children and ran a minibus service to take mothers to the heaper shops The orbullbullhe and the bus trips were free

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Scottish initiatives

Daiu Kilen rem lID mDVIS to pnnate belhlly diets ill ScotIaIlll

Chaired by Professor Phlip James the Sconish Diet Action Group was launched by the Secretary of State folt Scotlaod and aims to produce eproshy9rnmrre of action 10 meet d~tary targets for the Sconlsh popelation by November 1996 Ahe ongimiddot nally beirYJ proposed as the Sconish Food Commission the group has been denied sOlJghtshyafter powers to subsiliise toods and intervena in the market and instead the group must rely on voluntary meansof encouraging healthier ealing including educalJOn markellngacd wor~ng with industry to alIBI the formulalron oIlODds

The targets for healthy diets were themse~ves altered by the Secretary of Stale following represenshytations from the food industry salt reductions are to be smaller than Professor James had originally rer bffifneuronded in The Seorri- Diet last year and aWlts win be encouraged to stabilise their consumption of sugar rather than reduce it

There were few SI(lns tl11food producers were linirg up to preselll the Scotlish poOlic wilth quality food at affordable DrlCes As ever va were remindshyed hal Scotlands nan ral arder is tilled wilth excelmiddot lent produce but most of lhis is destined to nm fTIilIIets 10 lie lesl of EuroP EqlJdly not more tim aquaner of food CQrlSUfOO(j in Scotnd comes fromwrthin the Sconish food sector and lthe farming ana ~ocessing h t does take place in Scotland

uses imported icgredients and proouds The general viMof food producers was that

people ne longer wish to cook and we shoUd ook to Los Angeles and other places where hous are now bellllJ built WIthout middotterens 1he teachi~ of coolcing skis was dismissed as NeandertJilj rc1aI gia wishHlQ to ChampJl women in perpe~ sLlIery 10 the darooltllr oven

Discussion of lthe rule of rmiors tHIWr1 i~rYJ marketing ond So3Ie 01 itJer foodswas lin ad to a preSe ion by Mr Safeway SIr Alsta ~t who annoLocad that bull polo ~ 19 sVS cleckout 1111 fnit OJId III run sane stOffiS IElt

year Yet retaners are not wil to establish 3 rwasshyenee In som9 of Scotlands most ltEprMId area what suppol1 can theygive to coTll1U1ly llaltnNes to BflSUle that quality attnrdable food reaches Ole pe0shy

ple 1110 nlOSl need It The Scottish Diet Action Gr nciJdegt both

industry and comrnunny representdlives W wail to se how II wili lackle the thOnlY ISSUe 01 whethel poopl In poverw have adeqJate irromes to erubIe them to 113 arcess to ani to corSl11C ahealtll dt It 15 possible lIPl the ~ee mnet food canshynel prevent the escatltrng IICKImce of Milly disar middot ders esperra mong lhe poorest and elene11 01 govemrTlOlll irteMr1lioo rTgt1( be needed in the interests of the IlIIt1 helth

LMOII tanh ampThe food Maganre bull Jan MiW1 1995 bull Zt

National Food Alliance News

NTF Is it forceful enough Ten Nutrition Task Force (NTF) project teams are now developing policies which should help to reach the Health of the Nation dietary targets Cause for celebration Yes and no While some are making progress others are making heavy weather

The NFA cenlj brOlJ11t togeth pub he IIteres1 representHTlIeS to exchange onformaoon and Id on hllW to boog all Prolect lams to theleI 01 the best

Some of the new prOfeCl teams are in actboJoups of the old worlong palJeS and so - sinoe they te been meeung hu some time - are qurte a long way down the road The team on hospitalcatong one un example nd it ha ealV produro wah nUllgt

uon gudelfts lor hospital crtellll which Id be ptjllishid In rly t995

Onr olect teams only hld thet meeoog rn Nb 1991 They Will ed to cr qUM fltenselV to make lgteadway before Octob1f t995 which is when the Nutntion Tast i schedtOed to hve rt next - and pershyhaPS last - meeting This was not a prcspect rehSMd by arry 01 Ih purioc int1fest rep~tatNB brougrllOjletnshyer by the Nf AIl 1 Oecambel

All agJeed that It IVa VEY unhkely lhilt I tt t could be wootd hJye been achBived that date Mochanlsms for UlIlI09 rOe IWI1r of the Nuunion Tast ~ca - dnO the Ta~ Force IlSeH - ~ cenat to be an issue al rutJae meel shyinl) Repltesetlttrros mgSIMl1 of the len tems 1)1 present and othshycom crocems I3ISed IlCluded bull la 01 to-crdlrralJon betwefl the te3mi Aprng-pOng game ~ aheacJy dng lIIlh for plbullbull one team belrewrg thil[ an ISSU is being dealt WIth arrotle team but in fact it ~ beogtg COMed by rether bull Continued reltur1ance ro Il0mote healthy dons as a whole Mentlers of some leans- are tryiIg to restrict the locus to fat alone even thoujh the NIT has~eadv agreed Ihot slaJc1 sugar solt and other nutnllllts las lI01ed iii the COMA report on Ore[oy ReInce

Valuesl are also inpcrtoll1t bull An assumptIOn by some teams tha coolidentiaity Is the nOInn rather tha the exceptiOfL So fal [ire NTF has heen an xGeliOll model of 0 gavemmen with the va moJOOlV 01 backgrltXlld paJ)ers and monules in the ptjllic domain POOlic I1tefes1 representatives re clear that th1s I) of IoIlIIJIg shOlJd continue

Custome demanrl- or ~ck of n shywas anothef thorny issue which arose In aral teams SI podllic i1tenest reprbullmas despaa-oo of theargushyment - 01 too chen heard from some food lIdust) presentatlves - that since consumers did oot _t healllYy food then mmpanies uk IO)t prOlde It and sLBlie mthemarksl place These Mgt1nos seem oblNlou to the argument that cnnsumefS cannot press the demand in the flBlket lilies a heitIt product IS 1t~l e to bUf cr reect

For the reclXd the DlTent kf Ol

prOlect learnS IS as lollows bull 9uidelOles for erucaUOfl1ll materials bull meal signposoog bull hospital ta[eMg

bull school mealsplowJers bull fast feOOs and restaurants bull tminmg lor caterers bull pmt dewIopmeot bull proltia1 promotion bull prim) ho1th re Iovo me

Notable gaps 111 thiS ist ate food atIa1iltrng - wtrh rsnains th pr~nte of an Wdonnal gmup - and lIillOn labeiolg Although the Informal group en food -tiSllghas so fat mel only OIU in July 1994 the NFAs advettlsing working party IS maklr19 sure Ihatitre ~sue rs kept hl1l on the agergtshyda lsee page 41 The rkrlg partyis panrel cmm 01 me aspoolS of the liuntura revitJv 011 ilovert is irJ

whiCh is being funoed by MAFF On rutrition labelling aJoint working

pany 01 Nulntion rast Fer and Food Ad~ Corrmlee membel hasbeen meetmg and MAFF is funding yet more researth IIto ClnS4lmar understanciPo of ClJrrlllt nUlInitm labelng It IS flOt

entirely clear why m-e research ~ ded nto thIS aspect of lire pmblem In the meanvilile consumerS cClltmue to be d1lOd bull simple sch wiId1 might help them choore ahalthy die[

New members The Scottish Food Poverty Network aills to aise tho prolile of food

polllfty sIn SCOlland fill Ulilgo the exchallllB of infollTlashyllOnoo skills aroo1lllle lood 0middot

ops cornmUfli ly fllltrolOllI$ts and vol shyJmla) Q100PS whICh are Its memshyboers TIl e British Association for the Study ot Community Dentistry undertakes rsenell into dem1 igtllbllc healthfIlI promoles oral ~Blth mclutllng rtietilry aspects Qf ora health It is a speetalrst society in delll1 igtllbllc lgtealth iii elatTOn to tile Royal College of Surgeons lE1lglandJ 00 has around 115(] memhers wOfbng In the NHS and in urwesll

Ihnion 1 Food AtliJnce lrd Floor 5middot11 Worship Street todon EC2A 2BH Ie[ 07t 6282442 I 07t 6289329

Officers Professor P11l1lp James ~PrBSld~nt) ehey Carmo lCrallllli1l1l Jael ioI1er ~reasurerl

Jeane lnlllJiiold ISecreUl~ Ii Co-(Jidinatol1f

SltinlantBa MofltailAsst Co-ordlrliltorl

Pip CoiIInQs lAss Co-OIdt1

~_U~IIf Jhe Ndtional Food AI lIRe is an asmciil- I oorl at vOOJntari pcCiasslonal heallh onsutner and other public interest organ-

IsatIOns Its purpose is to develOP tood I

ond agrICulture policy II I ardel to Improve the health of the general pobt mcrease Mwiedgc and appreciation of the way in

Who iell food is produced and distributed I

Mid the effect thiScan have on human alth and the enVIronment

This pg has been contributed by the National Food Alliance

1 Action and Information on Sugars Association of School Health Education

Co-ordinators Baby Milk Action British Association for the Study of

Community Dentistry Br itish Dental Association Hritish Hesrt FDundation 8ritish Organic Farmers Campaign for Real Ale Caroline Walker Trust Childrens Society Chrislian Aid Common Ground Community Nutrition Group Coronary Prevention Group Council for the Protectj01 of RIallngand Olet Breaker tIm Rllm Aeserlrd Cfrltre f ood AdditiIJ es Campaign Te l l i ~ Fno~ Commisaln Friends of lhn farth Geoo1JcSFomiddotum 13MB remains General Union) Srren Network HDnry Doubleday ~search Association Hyperi1CtMChlldrom Support Group lrlst it1Jl9 Of European Environmental I PoiICV Unlon McCarrison Society Maternity AAilnoo NotD1aI AssccalIDn QI T~acters of HCne I ttMOllIIts ilndTeoIwJOogy NatoM1l Contsdllal ion of P -en tmiddotl eade AssDCI3110ns NatDJa1Famws Union Nallilliial Fadgrntrdn Df Cit Fmms Natllml federwtton at Consumer Groups Na1Dll1 fedBTUbDn of Womens I InstrLJlo PestiCides Tlltsl FVal ArraltJJral andAlIlDd I Wo_ Un~ IlGWUI Scotti f ood Poverty NBtW(]fk Socie1) of ~Ith ~atlon and Health I Prorrmtm SpeCiBlilts Soil Associalion Vegelari3n SOCIety WCrllBn Farming Union World Cancw Research Fund lserrus If~ MFA British Dietetic Association British Medical Association ConsUl1l8l Association Filcult( of publn Health Medrcine of the RoyJl Cdmiddotege of Physicians Guild fODd WrIter s middot lealth Educatan AuthClnt r Institute of Trading Standatds I Admlnlstrallon Niltionill Cortsuner Council National Fanrrn tol CHD Prevention Royal Society of Medicine Food and

Health Forum Royal Society for the Promotion of Health SAfE Alliance Scottish Consumer Council r rades Union Congress Vega Research Welsh Consumer Council

ZZ e IMng Eanh ampTho rood MagalllO e Jan-March tim

National Food Alliance News

NTF Is it forceful enough Ten Nutrition Task Force (NTF) project teams are now developing policies which should help to reach the Health of the Nation dietary targets Cause for celebration Yes and no While some are making progress others are making heavy weather

The NFA cenlj brOlJ11t togeth pub he IIteres1 representHTlIeS to exchange onformaoon and Id on hllW to boog all Prolect lams to theleI 01 the best

Some of the new prOfeCl teams are in actboJoups of the old worlong palJeS and so - sinoe they te been meeung hu some time - are qurte a long way down the road The team on hospitalcatong one un example nd it ha ealV produro wah nUllgt

uon gudelfts lor hospital crtellll which Id be ptjllishid In rly t995

Onr olect teams only hld thet meeoog rn Nb 1991 They Will ed to cr qUM fltenselV to make lgteadway before Octob1f t995 which is when the Nutntion Tast i schedtOed to hve rt next - and pershyhaPS last - meeting This was not a prcspect rehSMd by arry 01 Ih purioc int1fest rep~tatNB brougrllOjletnshyer by the Nf AIl 1 Oecambel

All agJeed that It IVa VEY unhkely lhilt I tt t could be wootd hJye been achBived that date Mochanlsms for UlIlI09 rOe IWI1r of the Nuunion Tast ~ca - dnO the Ta~ Force IlSeH - ~ cenat to be an issue al rutJae meel shyinl) Repltesetlttrros mgSIMl1 of the len tems 1)1 present and othshycom crocems I3ISed IlCluded bull la 01 to-crdlrralJon betwefl the te3mi Aprng-pOng game ~ aheacJy dng lIIlh for plbullbull one team belrewrg thil[ an ISSU is being dealt WIth arrotle team but in fact it ~ beogtg COMed by rether bull Continued reltur1ance ro Il0mote healthy dons as a whole Mentlers of some leans- are tryiIg to restrict the locus to fat alone even thoujh the NIT has~eadv agreed Ihot slaJc1 sugar solt and other nutnllllts las lI01ed iii the COMA report on Ore[oy ReInce

Valuesl are also inpcrtoll1t bull An assumptIOn by some teams tha coolidentiaity Is the nOInn rather tha the exceptiOfL So fal [ire NTF has heen an xGeliOll model of 0 gavemmen with the va moJOOlV 01 backgrltXlld paJ)ers and monules in the ptjllic domain POOlic I1tefes1 representatives re clear that th1s I) of IoIlIIJIg shOlJd continue

Custome demanrl- or ~ck of n shywas anothef thorny issue which arose In aral teams SI podllic i1tenest reprbullmas despaa-oo of theargushyment - 01 too chen heard from some food lIdust) presentatlves - that since consumers did oot _t healllYy food then mmpanies uk IO)t prOlde It and sLBlie mthemarksl place These Mgt1nos seem oblNlou to the argument that cnnsumefS cannot press the demand in the flBlket lilies a heitIt product IS 1t~l e to bUf cr reect

For the reclXd the DlTent kf Ol

prOlect learnS IS as lollows bull 9uidelOles for erucaUOfl1ll materials bull meal signposoog bull hospital ta[eMg

bull school mealsplowJers bull fast feOOs and restaurants bull tminmg lor caterers bull pmt dewIopmeot bull proltia1 promotion bull prim) ho1th re Iovo me

Notable gaps 111 thiS ist ate food atIa1iltrng - wtrh rsnains th pr~nte of an Wdonnal gmup - and lIillOn labeiolg Although the Informal group en food -tiSllghas so fat mel only OIU in July 1994 the NFAs advettlsing working party IS maklr19 sure Ihatitre ~sue rs kept hl1l on the agergtshyda lsee page 41 The rkrlg partyis panrel cmm 01 me aspoolS of the liuntura revitJv 011 ilovert is irJ

whiCh is being funoed by MAFF On rutrition labelling aJoint working

pany 01 Nulntion rast Fer and Food Ad~ Corrmlee membel hasbeen meetmg and MAFF is funding yet more researth IIto ClnS4lmar understanciPo of ClJrrlllt nUlInitm labelng It IS flOt

entirely clear why m-e research ~ ded nto thIS aspect of lire pmblem In the meanvilile consumerS cClltmue to be d1lOd bull simple sch wiId1 might help them choore ahalthy die[

New members The Scottish Food Poverty Network aills to aise tho prolile of food

polllfty sIn SCOlland fill Ulilgo the exchallllB of infollTlashyllOnoo skills aroo1lllle lood 0middot

ops cornmUfli ly fllltrolOllI$ts and vol shyJmla) Q100PS whICh are Its memshyboers TIl e British Association for the Study ot Community Dentistry undertakes rsenell into dem1 igtllbllc healthfIlI promoles oral ~Blth mclutllng rtietilry aspects Qf ora health It is a speetalrst society in delll1 igtllbllc lgtealth iii elatTOn to tile Royal College of Surgeons lE1lglandJ 00 has around 115(] memhers wOfbng In the NHS and in urwesll

Ihnion 1 Food AtliJnce lrd Floor 5middot11 Worship Street todon EC2A 2BH Ie[ 07t 6282442 I 07t 6289329

Officers Professor P11l1lp James ~PrBSld~nt) ehey Carmo lCrallllli1l1l Jael ioI1er ~reasurerl

Jeane lnlllJiiold ISecreUl~ Ii Co-(Jidinatol1f

SltinlantBa MofltailAsst Co-ordlrliltorl

Pip CoiIInQs lAss Co-OIdt1

~_U~IIf Jhe Ndtional Food AI lIRe is an asmciil- I oorl at vOOJntari pcCiasslonal heallh onsutner and other public interest organ-

IsatIOns Its purpose is to develOP tood I

ond agrICulture policy II I ardel to Improve the health of the general pobt mcrease Mwiedgc and appreciation of the way in

Who iell food is produced and distributed I

Mid the effect thiScan have on human alth and the enVIronment

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Co-ordinators Baby Milk Action British Association for the Study of

Community Dentistry Br itish Dental Association Hritish Hesrt FDundation 8ritish Organic Farmers Campaign for Real Ale Caroline Walker Trust Childrens Society Chrislian Aid Common Ground Community Nutrition Group Coronary Prevention Group Council for the Protectj01 of RIallngand Olet Breaker tIm Rllm Aeserlrd Cfrltre f ood AdditiIJ es Campaign Te l l i ~ Fno~ Commisaln Friends of lhn farth Geoo1JcSFomiddotum 13MB remains General Union) Srren Network HDnry Doubleday ~search Association Hyperi1CtMChlldrom Support Group lrlst it1Jl9 Of European Environmental I PoiICV Unlon McCarrison Society Maternity AAilnoo NotD1aI AssccalIDn QI T~acters of HCne I ttMOllIIts ilndTeoIwJOogy NatoM1l Contsdllal ion of P -en tmiddotl eade AssDCI3110ns NatDJa1Famws Union Nallilliial Fadgrntrdn Df Cit Fmms Natllml federwtton at Consumer Groups Na1Dll1 fedBTUbDn of Womens I InstrLJlo PestiCides Tlltsl FVal ArraltJJral andAlIlDd I Wo_ Un~ IlGWUI Scotti f ood Poverty NBtW(]fk Socie1) of ~Ith ~atlon and Health I Prorrmtm SpeCiBlilts Soil Associalion Vegelari3n SOCIety WCrllBn Farming Union World Cancw Research Fund lserrus If~ MFA British Dietetic Association British Medical Association ConsUl1l8l Association Filcult( of publn Health Medrcine of the RoyJl Cdmiddotege of Physicians Guild fODd WrIter s middot lealth Educatan AuthClnt r Institute of Trading Standatds I Admlnlstrallon Niltionill Cortsuner Council National Fanrrn tol CHD Prevention Royal Society of Medicine Food and

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Anewfriend for organic farming benefits Ioca coml1U1ities and organshyIC farrTWl9 con Iltf mutl be part of thaI rm hoping that we~ be lop

In anew report Wooong Future Jobs a d the Environment Friends of the Earth (FoE) has for thefirst time nequivocally endorsed organic farming Robin Maynard of e Soil Association asked FoE Directo~ Charles Secrett Why thesudden conversiilnT

cs Tm nol sue s sc suddenWove rnrogJlSed 101 some time lhat oganic falflWlg propel prac~sed bmgs oaI enviroomental g8lrtS But were very much locUSlng on demingsustainabfe dlllPlopment poslmiddotRIOana 9_ faomng oHers otMotJs social and coshy

nolllC gains In companson to convenshyuoooi agulllJre wIgtch substllutes dlels and maciOflllry lor Inbor

RM A practical rJltpie ree foE has tal an nee 00 the 01gallC movemenllS uvoogh 1loos Comrrunrty SlCJIlOIIM Agmultlre sd1emes such as ~ boKes But the entitusmm lor lt1s seems to have came mam hom FoE local grps taU1er lIIan head oee

cs Yes fI pallt1Jldr grO4)S I1the South wSI Thee real dellat -thogt FoE aIJou haw mLdl lYe sI1Wd encllltI3ge local J10UP 10 get flVClved In praCblto8l PIOIflClS Some 01 us UlII1ilt prectKaI prOfOCts ae the bes typo of Co1mOillln letI puiling I1to

practice wit we preach or advocate In tooms of polICy change I beIreve II people can actual~ see somellwlg WOIki1g thats the most COf1V11cing I of persuaoog themaloo an ntlsrnatlle

8M Now that IOU come out with thm srrmg suppornng sratemet fOI OlgMIlC aglCUlt1Jle what other work

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cs Were pectng tOapporl an agrlcllture campaigner sometrne later In the year bu IanbQpae that wel be IobIlyJ1g till MIflIstry of Agnculwre about he amplojmen g_ frool organlCfarminv iart 01 0

Sustambfe Developmoot aJ91da IS about promo local plOductlln lhat

Il1g a Food CampalQll both erms 01 CDrtSIJ11pUon ISsues and nunhOn As part of tha wel bo supponmQ orga1IC larrlWlg by pomtl1g out the bcner taSto and because Ibelieve s bener fOi me alld my family r Just because of lhe environmental benefits

RM FoE be looki1g to cooptrnte WIth Ihe orllnlc movement 00 tIls

cs Yes one 01 rhe thingS that has changed ot foE IS hat IYere nOW Icok log much mDe to work In coalrtlaquolftS and ances th ether organosaUltJlli and lhe Sci AsSOClon ~ one OirllS all We hope thats how you ooe It too

bull wtgtg futuro Aibs 8IId he ~awibbio Irom FnlIIds dille EMth (y 9

Countryside conservation green or mean The conCepl of paYf1O I3Imers 0 susshytilln and enhance he beauty and drversrry of the counrysrde has not ~s 0000 as Wldoly acceptld as rt rs toda-i In the lale 19705 the offiaal view pressed fI he GDIOInments Mote Paper FarmugtJ 0I1d rhe Narioo was that BSfstamed Increase in egncu~urol net producricfllS the naiondl merest alld CIlI1 be aclgtfMJd wou undue impact on tile enwon ment

We now know that mtenslVC agOshyaJlw doe have asenous negaUlie I11pact upon the naMal eJWlfoomem and over the yea~ lhere hae be a 00 of 1T1l000ant devel_ts attempJng to amchorato thIS Adll1SOry codes of proctice haye laosed rmneISmiddotawateness of theenYlronmiddot mentalmoact 01 tIlIir actrvllieS Govemme11l1S more aware of the need for an rfMronmenral componen Within agnCIJluml policy and nlJ111lf middot ou gJ3nt d payment schemes have emerged In help Dffsel SOme of tho worSt excesses of lndus1r1al agncLlshyture EYen the Innges 01 the Common

Mark Redman questions whether government green subsidies really help tbe environment

AgrictJitural Policy _ recent acouied a pale green hue

In total th- are wei OVer 50 Off fet sources DI fLllu1IIto entlllJaga environmental IlCtlOO by farmers The most ITIporlllnt of these IrdJdlt Envoomentilily Senstive Aress IEDAs) the CntrysJde Sewaldslip Scheme NrtJille Senlv Aeas fNSAs) the Farm Dod Cservation Grant Scheme (FampCGSI and the Fam WOOltIIand Premlll1l Scheme

One of the cri tiCisms 01 the eistshy109 schemes IS that Wlth thell segeshygatelt anTIS and lact of imegrallaquo)ltl they only aU a Piecemeal sOllJllon to the OOlOltrysldeS is - and a t05t1 and complexone a tIla1 Schemes tend n flXlJS UflOO proteCl1g alnmloog O Ireatrog only tho whlCit IS rae vt1erable or beautiful WIth linle regard for the WIer COUJ1rySlde The ordlret and conv11011p1ace WIldlife speQS for lpie tend 0 be over-

i00i00 iMIollS needed IS an negra ad approach to evJltI11elt1tal prooc oon aM countrySIde lto_oon that IS concerned wrth the management and health 01 the whole countrSlde

Rehectl10 Its increaSlflg promishynence fI U field of agn-erMfOI1fTlEnshy

aI poky the SOot Assoaatoon recen1y orgased ~ day 01 fam1 vlSI KlvolvJ1g sor olficias from he Govenl11enl sTleastrV Oepanlllenl MAfF end the Department of tne

Environment as weU a representashytMlS lrom English Natlaquoe he Countl)side ComfTlSSlOl Na~ooal

Trust Royal Society for the Protection of Bo-ds Wor1d Wide Fund for Nature (UK) and Iha Counil for the P01ec~ I Aural England

The VISIts W held on twO leadshy09 organo farms In North Dorset and thell oIloctlve S ple - to obseNe first hand the effeelMess of ilXJsting enwonmenaI payn

schemes and to belJlO rpoundMlW1ng the Wo1y aI1euroad f01 many pamclpants tillS IWS metlt first opporumrty to meet brrnllls in the Iield dOd to diSCUSS the problems and pactlCDl~ ies of enVIronshyrnml protElction scheme

OiscUSSIOns were frark and octilmiddot

SIIli heatlltf Wa ara brrnllls not keflleJ WilS Ihe overwhemJ1g message 0 the pOfCI rna and preSSll8 ~~ If your schemes are to wolk they must be neltJble and farmel frienaIY iartlCuiarcnoClSlT1 lYas rBSeMJd for the Soutlt Wess Downs ESA hat boh fanns fall Wlthfl ESAs are lhe etMrorltnentai ffags~ 01 MAFF but practice fllpltmenlnOOn can be Ioghly cootonrrus lh the IOQII sthernes tack of cle otectrves Inilllpoprate InerpretatiOn of Wi IaOOStape and Wlldi ISSlOlS and InHexibiit 1309 the haclltles of the pnrt i~tI1g mcl~

Key POflts debate from the DayII be taken fnrward as part of he Soil AsscciatJOn contntxJtion to the Governments CUIIent levJew of agrishyenYIIlX1mem schemes

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Fat mark-up Iheald a repon onlladio 4 an the pnong of HeoIthV EIfIlg products (IIis Irom the Food Commrsoon nPrIfI on supenrrartet mark-1JIl1J) 1eannmsshy last lSSue ampis) The pr(9lIlllle QIIOled Tesco prodUCIS rtod up as rruh as 40 bUll have seen amuch -ooter mark up than this For exampie the pn08 of thelf nonnaJ minced meal is (1 09 par pound bUI for the IeashySIQllt Is [2 09 per pound

The message to the IlIU1cmay be E a Ihe diet IlIt are IOfced to spend mole to mantain the arnoonl we eat Can they IiV ~sufy such an measetn~1

Anna Symonds Hig Wycombe Bucks

We Bgfee entire as 0ltIf Y last ISSue made deaf Areporr In -h7W~ 10

Health also fOOI1( IlXCCSSlW I rl) on lean maar mlJJPf1mariets lind advtses JuiIIIg reguIw and tnmming lhe IaI rOlne~ d)Oll i~a1l to save morre Eds

Organic Services YOOI readers should now that SOOIe

churches nOw use Ofgncally gown tread and me Oryarilt bread ~ WeIj availab~ Unleavated wafes are pmllJshyad bj FA Dumonl folkslone Kanl Wm(5 are YIIieIy aval~ble ICblrng hom HORA and frencr Red a SI USkIs lMrte bot1ied Bt iIIqn Illm Sal

Some Offooory r are nch m OfPAlt symboksm bltead h nh I-ds JMfI and human hands have made WI frul ol Ihe _ and wOlk ol halds Iut few preachers tmelslgtlnd 01 expIatn the symboksm We should demand Ihal Ihey do so

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Water Miles The ar1lde rood Milos II YO Lirrmgame was timely HOr aboot one on Water Mils I tJri battle water SIOCO 1 Is earned on lorries causes ail JXIIution TIlen there are thebottles And Willer fillers haw othel problems

Keep on about hyUlQgenolad rat which I ~tlll see as an Ingredient heath food sho~s and vegel suel also BS( milk etc etc

Helen Horsle Lonjon SWI8

Organic sterilising M Linley of Derbvshile asks I make homemade wine and beer and use acQfTVTlercial steriijsing solution called Compro SPO I realise equipment must be clean but Iwoud feel mare at ease ~ there was an organic method that causaed no detremental impact on water sysshytems I dont know if Campro is envishyronmentally fndly not I would appreciate afrf advice or comments from readers on the problem

Answers to living Earth amp The Food Magazine

Choco-miles Ihave )USllead mV copy of tile October LJving EilIIIl8lld Food M_ I oouIdn1 help ing Inyseilltow ~nv food MoEs h beon clocked up by a bar allJari Orgal1l Choca~le ~f tgte t I would buy in my local heailh food II BaSlllljSlale The Woud elmm thaI oganrc gedrelUs ham _the Wtlrid have been used III plO shycfuce tlrs 9ln chocolate IPage 26 did oot mpress me as I think rt was meant to do aitJt readinQ tile anicIe til food MOes on pages I ~ ZO

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The Trap by James Goldsmith Macmllan pound799 ISBN0 333 54224 4

Goodbve S James IioIdsmrlh food biron )~tAESllduslr~list corporele Ialder pa excellence hel 10 Jnmy Goldsmith MEP GOOStA1 apacalj1ltic author and yrem ytSM)nary

The electoral SUIctpounds

whICh took Goldsmith lrom tne fOdldalltll of hIS campatgn LillJre fJJfO(ll to tweire per t 01 the Freoch EUlopean Ptlrliament vote II little more than thnlt mooths was IargelV thanks to h~ pubhcatrtll II France last vea of La PICgC Ashon booI in tile catechismal form favorred by Fench polmcrans It Vo1lnt suaight to the lOp of Ih~ bBst-Sflller~ h t Sales in Fante ale In the hundreds 01 thou shysands and anew mole qlo-centrlc edltrtll has just been issued 11 tne UK _nl_lad TIle Trap

The books four main themes are GAIT and gobal fie trod_ a discus of nauomood ethnlltrng the welare sta1e and (he W1l ells of modern llIenSlV8 (lgncUlure and nuclear enelg-f The tone IS deeplv pesiltllC on OUIshy

look more usuallv sociaredwitll hIS older blather Teddy foundef and s~ publish of TIle EcologiSt

Though some passages somble lhe agenda of he UK Conservrrtlle light on competilion 11 healthmiddotcare prOision IOlIchars for oducabonand hostility to the pmple of umrtv aoo lhe WIllshylare Slatel much 01 Ihe bollilt IS bolh radical all campelhng Goldsmith ridICulesClur m81hod of na~ actOIInllng wh~h records ISII 0shy

nom~ glowth (ntiona assumed 0 be aproxy for welfilre - foltnMng rnajalt disaSlers such eanhquakes 0

Iwlltanes He invetghs agallSl dllllvamiddot lIOn and a system whICh combins a doubling In UK goss natIOnal podiIct wnh a Similar InCrease In the numbels affkted by (lltgterty

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ms lite tire dievEiopment of SST lbovine growth hanooo) ltWld lhe catn

babn lorced to naluraliV helbivorous unonals is pbed and qloded

The GoIdsmth hallmark tItough has become hIS lIofound oppo~tlOn to GAn In WOlds Global ftee trade has become a satld pnclplc of mod ern econonoc theory 1M onevilIch ~ foil to ns logicaf COOClllSions will Isb and destalMtse tile ndustrishyDlisod world whlio cefy ravaging Ihe thd Vlorld In agtvOIfd whefe fof1shySEyen Fiprnas canbe mpIoyed tile COSI ol ana person In bull developed counshytry lhe vast bulk of new JOb opportumshylies bullbull~I be tile dllVlioping Wtlrid shyWith proctable consequ for unoyttIenl and social taltilv in Europe

II these arguts are famihal to IS 01 the Food MagalinelLNmg EMil tire chances at ns through tile ak 01 Till long 10flIlB FOOl CommlSSlOll oeetor and Soil Assocration Counerl membelt and eoiln Hines IllaIlg and Hmes he Now Pralectiomsm was the academic trea shytise 1IJe Trap is tbe pltlplIal VIlfsion accesstic Plsy - and trifYltrg Ha~ RaVeR

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and hold wtIIlt bJded up by peruse and knowledge all 01 wNch permaabullbull he book In 17 pages sho h manshyaged 10 pac n aI tile biKkground ROfshy

maon oooded by asplmg go ta IlgtCIudIng reglSuallOn n-ltlepth ltIew 01 ti1e sOlI and lerdity the all mpananl pasture managne Weshytock and mel health aOO corcluklll With mmketlng

Mlat mOle do you wanl W one th1ng lI()Ce il is wrmn wllh hum and nity000 t lhooug enjoyed eadingn Francis Blake

Sell Wilat Vou Sow Tbe Growers Guide To Successlul Produce Marketing

Authol fit GiIlsOll Pubhsw New WOIld PWgtIishg available hom Sod AsSOCliluon bookmiddot shop

If there 1$ a clear messa~ lo[ OIgamc groweltS In the 1990s t s tool rts not enough 10 j)lodlCe good CfOjlSshyVouve go to know how and whe 10 sel thorn aod at a lau pIe

Although gene1maketlllllexts con be lod most boo shops here IS too first one Ive elEf seen vJhoch IS tageted speCIfically at vagshyelable poducers (a tlolJgh not exclushysrveIy coneemed WIth tile maelllg 01 orgamc poducel Dont be put 0 by lhe IUlld cover and vev AmOllCan $tj1e 01 the Illxl a woahh at usalul Info manon IS c)ntamed Within

nwe IS a lalge and COmplBshyhenslV8 section all duect marKtltmiddot 111 an ea whichs 109 pa shyoculaly attmtlive 10 many UK growmiddot ers as well as chanters dealing Wlth otail outlets aod the woolesale and

multpI rnaels Thltl tex IS hborally spookled WltII eallrle an)tdots and frm comt whICh undorllne the neapts bo epleMer fur 1 gowe II e me not blessed with a lomal bUSlne~ traing the secbon on business mattes will be partlOJshylaly I~umllaling

icllg strateges Break even analySts All et OUI II) laymans lanshyguage lhankygtu Mr GibsOn AttaCwe IlI1e df3W1lS ale loood mughout the book dlustra ng amoog other thlllls dOlens 01 tam logos rt IS belh mlereshng nd instl1JC1M to see how ore producshyers promote Ihemselves

Above a~ this book is YOf( read ab--e etl from cavec to cover 01 lust to dp 1010 once In awMe Its almost guanteed thai you WI fiod someshythllg ollnteest Tryt JII Deane

Uncommon Opportunities An Agenda lor Peace and Equitable Development Ihe Repoll oIlhe Inlernatlonal Cormis$iOll on Peace and food Zed Press 7 Cyntloa St LoooOll Nl ISBN 85649306 7 [1 295 994 Based on the pemise loot the peace dividend (Ihe money we canye now the cod war is ovel can be put oCOllsuucIlYe use developing the vld Instead 01 deslfOymg It the members 01 llus oddly-named Commission offer us aviSIOn of a VltIIld of velHed fllly-el1lf1loyed socially seltubull democratiC and coshyopetrve people

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Fat mark-up Iheald a repon onlladio 4 an the pnong of HeoIthV EIfIlg products (IIis Irom the Food Commrsoon nPrIfI on supenrrartet mark-1JIl1J) 1eannmsshy last lSSue ampis) The pr(9lIlllle QIIOled Tesco prodUCIS rtod up as rruh as 40 bUll have seen amuch -ooter mark up than this For exampie the pn08 of thelf nonnaJ minced meal is (1 09 par pound bUI for the IeashySIQllt Is [2 09 per pound

The message to the IlIU1cmay be E a Ihe diet IlIt are IOfced to spend mole to mantain the arnoonl we eat Can they IiV ~sufy such an measetn~1

Anna Symonds Hig Wycombe Bucks

We Bgfee entire as 0ltIf Y last ISSue made deaf Areporr In -h7W~ 10

Health also fOOI1( IlXCCSSlW I rl) on lean maar mlJJPf1mariets lind advtses JuiIIIg reguIw and tnmming lhe IaI rOlne~ d)Oll i~a1l to save morre Eds

Organic Services YOOI readers should now that SOOIe

churches nOw use Ofgncally gown tread and me Oryarilt bread ~ WeIj availab~ Unleavated wafes are pmllJshyad bj FA Dumonl folkslone Kanl Wm(5 are YIIieIy aval~ble ICblrng hom HORA and frencr Red a SI USkIs lMrte bot1ied Bt iIIqn Illm Sal

Some Offooory r are nch m OfPAlt symboksm bltead h nh I-ds JMfI and human hands have made WI frul ol Ihe _ and wOlk ol halds Iut few preachers tmelslgtlnd 01 expIatn the symboksm We should demand Ihal Ihey do so

Or Edworj PIchlin Ripun Nurth Yorhhire

We welcome letters from readers Please send your comments or thoughts 10 The edilors Living EnntVFood Magazine 3rd floor 5- t t Worship Street London EC2A 2BH or you can fax us 011 0716280817

Water Miles The ar1lde rood Milos II YO Lirrmgame was timely HOr aboot one on Water Mils I tJri battle water SIOCO 1 Is earned on lorries causes ail JXIIution TIlen there are thebottles And Willer fillers haw othel problems

Keep on about hyUlQgenolad rat which I ~tlll see as an Ingredient heath food sho~s and vegel suel also BS( milk etc etc

Helen Horsle Lonjon SWI8

Organic sterilising M Linley of Derbvshile asks I make homemade wine and beer and use acQfTVTlercial steriijsing solution called Compro SPO I realise equipment must be clean but Iwoud feel mare at ease ~ there was an organic method that causaed no detremental impact on water sysshytems I dont know if Campro is envishyronmentally fndly not I would appreciate afrf advice or comments from readers on the problem

Answers to living Earth amp The Food Magazine

Choco-miles Ihave )USllead mV copy of tile October LJving EilIIIl8lld Food M_ I oouIdn1 help ing Inyseilltow ~nv food MoEs h beon clocked up by a bar allJari Orgal1l Choca~le ~f tgte t I would buy in my local heailh food II BaSlllljSlale The Woud elmm thaI oganrc gedrelUs ham _the Wtlrid have been used III plO shycfuce tlrs 9ln chocolate IPage 26 did oot mpress me as I think rt was meant to do aitJt readinQ tile anicIe til food MOes on pages I ~ ZO

Christine Horrocks Oakley Bilsingsloke

books

The Trap by James Goldsmith Macmllan pound799 ISBN0 333 54224 4

Goodbve S James IioIdsmrlh food biron )~tAESllduslr~list corporele Ialder pa excellence hel 10 Jnmy Goldsmith MEP GOOStA1 apacalj1ltic author and yrem ytSM)nary

The electoral SUIctpounds

whICh took Goldsmith lrom tne fOdldalltll of hIS campatgn LillJre fJJfO(ll to tweire per t 01 the Freoch EUlopean Ptlrliament vote II little more than thnlt mooths was IargelV thanks to h~ pubhcatrtll II France last vea of La PICgC Ashon booI in tile catechismal form favorred by Fench polmcrans It Vo1lnt suaight to the lOp of Ih~ bBst-Sflller~ h t Sales in Fante ale In the hundreds 01 thou shysands and anew mole qlo-centrlc edltrtll has just been issued 11 tne UK _nl_lad TIle Trap

The books four main themes are GAIT and gobal fie trod_ a discus of nauomood ethnlltrng the welare sta1e and (he W1l ells of modern llIenSlV8 (lgncUlure and nuclear enelg-f The tone IS deeplv pesiltllC on OUIshy

look more usuallv sociaredwitll hIS older blather Teddy foundef and s~ publish of TIle EcologiSt

Though some passages somble lhe agenda of he UK Conservrrtlle light on competilion 11 healthmiddotcare prOision IOlIchars for oducabonand hostility to the pmple of umrtv aoo lhe WIllshylare Slatel much 01 Ihe bollilt IS bolh radical all campelhng Goldsmith ridICulesClur m81hod of na~ actOIInllng wh~h records ISII 0shy

nom~ glowth (ntiona assumed 0 be aproxy for welfilre - foltnMng rnajalt disaSlers such eanhquakes 0

Iwlltanes He invetghs agallSl dllllvamiddot lIOn and a system whICh combins a doubling In UK goss natIOnal podiIct wnh a Similar InCrease In the numbels affkted by (lltgterty

In agTiculnn 100 COfllenlJOnal ssumptlOns udlated such as the OGs witn WoduclivllY wtICh cranksup Ivels 01 synthetic putl whileng tabou o~ the 41nd Th

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receIVed wisdom of Industrial tech

ms lite tire dievEiopment of SST lbovine growth hanooo) ltWld lhe catn

babn lorced to naluraliV helbivorous unonals is pbed and qloded

The GoIdsmth hallmark tItough has become hIS lIofound oppo~tlOn to GAn In WOlds Global ftee trade has become a satld pnclplc of mod ern econonoc theory 1M onevilIch ~ foil to ns logicaf COOClllSions will Isb and destalMtse tile ndustrishyDlisod world whlio cefy ravaging Ihe thd Vlorld In agtvOIfd whefe fof1shySEyen Fiprnas canbe mpIoyed tile COSI ol ana person In bull developed counshytry lhe vast bulk of new JOb opportumshylies bullbull~I be tile dllVlioping Wtlrid shyWith proctable consequ for unoyttIenl and social taltilv in Europe

II these arguts are famihal to IS 01 the Food MagalinelLNmg EMil tire chances at ns through tile ak 01 Till long 10flIlB FOOl CommlSSlOll oeetor and Soil Assocration Counerl membelt and eoiln Hines IllaIlg and Hmes he Now Pralectiomsm was the academic trea shytise 1IJe Trap is tbe pltlplIal VIlfsion accesstic Plsy - and trifYltrg Ha~ RaVeR

24 lin~ poundnh ampThe food Mag JanMarch t995

quately epllIn s how a nallonal goyshynmon With a neloiymiddotIluod peace dMdend Is gOing to be persuade1J 10 spend that nlonev on suer an aiIlUISshyIJC body as tho Uil aod ItS olbe s mther oop e8P9 Ute money bnbo QWT1 elector bull TimLolisteill

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The Organic Grassland Smallholding by JII Wolstenholme (Smalholder mctlcal Senes) [575 Vel another high quakty ogaroolt lam1iog haw to book has hit tile slieNes wth hlS eElIent lute bhcatiOfl by a Srn Assooallon SjffIbcI holder and eeeni ru_-up the loral1ll Awalds IOf Oganc fIWlTlIng and Natubullbull Coo1seMIIOfI Jill and he husband Wrdy Ialtm 100 aces of mal9lnal grassland In WaleS wllh deltilCatoOn CIe

and hold wtIIlt bJded up by peruse and knowledge all 01 wNch permaabullbull he book In 17 pages sho h manshyaged 10 pac n aI tile biKkground ROfshy

maon oooded by asplmg go ta IlgtCIudIng reglSuallOn n-ltlepth ltIew 01 ti1e sOlI and lerdity the all mpananl pasture managne Weshytock and mel health aOO corcluklll With mmketlng

Mlat mOle do you wanl W one th1ng lI()Ce il is wrmn wllh hum and nity000 t lhooug enjoyed eadingn Francis Blake

Sell Wilat Vou Sow Tbe Growers Guide To Successlul Produce Marketing

Authol fit GiIlsOll Pubhsw New WOIld PWgtIishg available hom Sod AsSOCliluon bookmiddot shop

If there 1$ a clear messa~ lo[ OIgamc groweltS In the 1990s t s tool rts not enough 10 j)lodlCe good CfOjlSshyVouve go to know how and whe 10 sel thorn aod at a lau pIe

Although gene1maketlllllexts con be lod most boo shops here IS too first one Ive elEf seen vJhoch IS tageted speCIfically at vagshyelable poducers (a tlolJgh not exclushysrveIy coneemed WIth tile maelllg 01 orgamc poducel Dont be put 0 by lhe IUlld cover and vev AmOllCan $tj1e 01 the Illxl a woahh at usalul Info manon IS c)ntamed Within

nwe IS a lalge and COmplBshyhenslV8 section all duect marKtltmiddot 111 an ea whichs 109 pa shyoculaly attmtlive 10 many UK growmiddot ers as well as chanters dealing Wlth otail outlets aod the woolesale and

multpI rnaels Thltl tex IS hborally spookled WltII eallrle an)tdots and frm comt whICh undorllne the neapts bo epleMer fur 1 gowe II e me not blessed with a lomal bUSlne~ traing the secbon on business mattes will be partlOJshylaly I~umllaling

icllg strateges Break even analySts All et OUI II) laymans lanshyguage lhankygtu Mr GibsOn AttaCwe IlI1e df3W1lS ale loood mughout the book dlustra ng amoog other thlllls dOlens 01 tam logos rt IS belh mlereshng nd instl1JC1M to see how ore producshyers promote Ihemselves

Above a~ this book is YOf( read ab--e etl from cavec to cover 01 lust to dp 1010 once In awMe Its almost guanteed thai you WI fiod someshythllg ollnteest Tryt JII Deane

Uncommon Opportunities An Agenda lor Peace and Equitable Development Ihe Repoll oIlhe Inlernatlonal Cormis$iOll on Peace and food Zed Press 7 Cyntloa St LoooOll Nl ISBN 85649306 7 [1 295 994 Based on the pemise loot the peace dividend (Ihe money we canye now the cod war is ovel can be put oCOllsuucIlYe use developing the vld Instead 01 deslfOymg It the members 01 llus oddly-named Commission offer us aviSIOn of a VltIIld of velHed fllly-el1lf1loyed socially seltubull democratiC and coshyopetrve people

Its qooe an adoovemcnt TheiS ar deta~s 01 the posltibliltes lor global lood poductionPOIctiOlls 10 the yea 2010 put ceroal conSlllt1lshyuon 60 hgher meat 52 higher ard ml 69 hl(Jher Remadlably the utllOIgt do not fall 101 the onhoshydox algumenl toot greatetlood pmshyducUl1 need mote mteflsive mpulS such as agochemlCillS Rahlll heV urge greatRf use 131 altematNe meth ods such as imOllrated pest manageshyment and mote oc03mc methods as 0

means 01 absorbin lobowt-le

shy

UNCOMMON OPPOR1UNlTIL

or-- -bullbull ---- - shy

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acknowledgng thai (ooll-derlCll COII1 UleS where agrochemtcaluse IS cur rentlv low may well want 10 boos thelt local food secumy thrlllllh mOle interlS methods filSt

11 IS an odd repon SIIppOlted by the Carter Presidential Cenue and the GOIbacrgtev fooroaton and heav Iy promollng lhe 0lt 01 tile UN as tho agency lor cooperbon Rolresgly does nol see blshydied hee-madleteellng as ltellillO crease sooal SIabllrty and secunty but II does egd lhe GATI as PI dng oow apport leM poorer countfles to gilln access to industrial coulluies mJlkets

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quately epllIn s how a nallonal goyshynmon With a neloiymiddotIluod peace dMdend Is gOing to be persuade1J 10 spend that nlonev on suer an aiIlUISshyIJC body as tho Uil aod ItS olbe s mther oop e8P9 Ute money bnbo QWT1 elector bull TimLolisteill

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The Organic Grassland Smallholding by JII Wolstenholme (Smalholder mctlcal Senes) [575 Vel another high quakty ogaroolt lam1iog haw to book has hit tile slieNes wth hlS eElIent lute bhcatiOfl by a Srn Assooallon SjffIbcI holder and eeeni ru_-up the loral1ll Awalds IOf Oganc fIWlTlIng and Natubullbull Coo1seMIIOfI Jill and he husband Wrdy Ialtm 100 aces of mal9lnal grassland In WaleS wllh deltilCatoOn CIe

and hold wtIIlt bJded up by peruse and knowledge all 01 wNch permaabullbull he book In 17 pages sho h manshyaged 10 pac n aI tile biKkground ROfshy

maon oooded by asplmg go ta IlgtCIudIng reglSuallOn n-ltlepth ltIew 01 ti1e sOlI and lerdity the all mpananl pasture managne Weshytock and mel health aOO corcluklll With mmketlng

Mlat mOle do you wanl W one th1ng lI()Ce il is wrmn wllh hum and nity000 t lhooug enjoyed eadingn Francis Blake

Sell Wilat Vou Sow Tbe Growers Guide To Successlul Produce Marketing

Authol fit GiIlsOll Pubhsw New WOIld PWgtIishg available hom Sod AsSOCliluon bookmiddot shop

If there 1$ a clear messa~ lo[ OIgamc groweltS In the 1990s t s tool rts not enough 10 j)lodlCe good CfOjlSshyVouve go to know how and whe 10 sel thorn aod at a lau pIe

Although gene1maketlllllexts con be lod most boo shops here IS too first one Ive elEf seen vJhoch IS tageted speCIfically at vagshyelable poducers (a tlolJgh not exclushysrveIy coneemed WIth tile maelllg 01 orgamc poducel Dont be put 0 by lhe IUlld cover and vev AmOllCan $tj1e 01 the Illxl a woahh at usalul Info manon IS c)ntamed Within

nwe IS a lalge and COmplBshyhenslV8 section all duect marKtltmiddot 111 an ea whichs 109 pa shyoculaly attmtlive 10 many UK growmiddot ers as well as chanters dealing Wlth otail outlets aod the woolesale and

multpI rnaels Thltl tex IS hborally spookled WltII eallrle an)tdots and frm comt whICh undorllne the neapts bo epleMer fur 1 gowe II e me not blessed with a lomal bUSlne~ traing the secbon on business mattes will be partlOJshylaly I~umllaling

icllg strateges Break even analySts All et OUI II) laymans lanshyguage lhankygtu Mr GibsOn AttaCwe IlI1e df3W1lS ale loood mughout the book dlustra ng amoog other thlllls dOlens 01 tam logos rt IS belh mlereshng nd instl1JC1M to see how ore producshyers promote Ihemselves

Above a~ this book is YOf( read ab--e etl from cavec to cover 01 lust to dp 1010 once In awMe Its almost guanteed thai you WI fiod someshythllg ollnteest Tryt JII Deane

Uncommon Opportunities An Agenda lor Peace and Equitable Development Ihe Repoll oIlhe Inlernatlonal Cormis$iOll on Peace and food Zed Press 7 Cyntloa St LoooOll Nl ISBN 85649306 7 [1 295 994 Based on the pemise loot the peace dividend (Ihe money we canye now the cod war is ovel can be put oCOllsuucIlYe use developing the vld Instead 01 deslfOymg It the members 01 llus oddly-named Commission offer us aviSIOn of a VltIIld of velHed fllly-el1lf1loyed socially seltubull democratiC and coshyopetrve people

Its qooe an adoovemcnt TheiS ar deta~s 01 the posltibliltes lor global lood poductionPOIctiOlls 10 the yea 2010 put ceroal conSlllt1lshyuon 60 hgher meat 52 higher ard ml 69 hl(Jher Remadlably the utllOIgt do not fall 101 the onhoshydox algumenl toot greatetlood pmshyducUl1 need mote mteflsive mpulS such as agochemlCillS Rahlll heV urge greatRf use 131 altematNe meth ods such as imOllrated pest manageshyment and mote oc03mc methods as 0

means 01 absorbin lobowt-le

shy

UNCOMMON OPPOR1UNlTIL

or-- -bullbull ---- - shy

~ -~ --- shy-------~--

II ~

acknowledgng thai (ooll-derlCll COII1 UleS where agrochemtcaluse IS cur rentlv low may well want 10 boos thelt local food secumy thrlllllh mOle interlS methods filSt

11 IS an odd repon SIIppOlted by the Carter Presidential Cenue and the GOIbacrgtev fooroaton and heav Iy promollng lhe 0lt 01 tile UN as tho agency lor cooperbon Rolresgly does nol see blshydied hee-madleteellng as ltellillO crease sooal SIabllrty and secunty but II does egd lhe GATI as PI dng oow apport leM poorer countfles to gilln access to industrial coulluies mJlkets

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Another recent addrtion to the Colston Slreot team ~ rIIllIir lhe Sool ASSOClilHonS Press and InformltJOn Officec HlS ole is 0 pm me an mformilllOf1 ser1lice fOl lhe medra and to produce press Irlicas news stones and Idpas for creal1ve mrtlatlves He also COfltl ibutes l iMfJg Earth 8 the Food Magillme asts WI h the pr()lt1()lrOn 01 majOr eY9fllS such as Organic HillVest Monll1 and prrMties supporl lor the press (3nd mcdm reQUirements 01 The Sol Assocratron Organic Mareng Company and the 001 Assooall0ns RespollSlbie Forostry Progmmme fie prevrtkJSly rkeltJ foo flgtJr years as Pubirc Relanons Oft lor dVISlon of the Amencan Te~ommullJ(iltIOf1S )lar t ATampT

teaching OIJiI am playing hoctev as a tear tess JOOilteepei fur his ry iJPd collego he SlIe only playel Without a Ilrban in tie Ielester S bullbull T~ tearn He ltEo wo~ed as aJgt untrl stopped by _ wltth ll1e ~gal syslem

H~ plans JlCUjOO mklng an MSc II ErMro ollolrcy iId Pnrg

and VOIking wth paner CaMishyIn devtQlf1g ltnI1U1es

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Jirres and DnIil1ff1ded 10 nmy at Chnslntas ltn had sal f1gt 3~ IinoJry Jawes also had rtO_ Dioo ltn Roo by an earl marr oge We oferthem all 011 deepest th Bill Slar g

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On February 14 1913 Scarland (lI1

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In tre 6 Novemhr 1994 edllron Scnlnd OIl SundiJ apologised wilemiddot servedlV to Challolte Mrtchell fro thIS error and IOf any embarrassment caused They have agleed to pay Ms MIfIhell dilm(lges and legal costs

Local action

Downland Organic Gardening Group winter meetings2nd Tuesday of each month February 14 is Talk About Seeds by Richard RixOil

of Chase Organics Detalls fro m M rn E Hayman 113 Oak Tree Close Friday Street EasLboume East Sussex B23 SDG Aon Organic Group next meetings January 18 (AGM and talk by Ken Ellis on bee klcping) February 15 (Effie Romain on oruamental gard(oshying) Details hom Cathy Wilson Ground I loor Hat 100 Maple Road Horfield Bristol BS7 8RG Ba th Organic Group next mtcting February 21 111e

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Swansea and District Organic Group Contact David Marlow I Eynon Streel Go~inon Swallsea

Chichester Organic Gard~ning Society Contact Pal Mams While Gales Grange Lane Church orton $(middot]scy West Sussex

lb Soil socialion wOlild like to thank everyone who canu lo the BB Good Foud shuw al Ihe NIX Birmillf(ham and h(ljped disuiuulc iIllomlation to an estil11fll~d 60000 audishyence

11cre are cll1Tently 45 affilishyated local groups vilb two more aboUlia start lip Sadly Ihe Nortl East Group ha dismiddot bandoo - many thanks fo r all Lhe rnember~ hard work ovr rhe yeal

TIt Soil AssofiaLion has rdnstated the Local Gro up Shi Id to be awarded Ill he G~1 each year First winllerh

th i ~ year were- the Epsom Group whose i-Ich i(vtltItnls include an a~toundit1 g amount of fundraiing as wefl as paymiddot ing for 70 hools coflcf(es md associatiOJl~ In rrCfjvc Litblg Enrtll A sptCiallllt~nshylion RlU [ bl made (or Mrs LU7abeth YIoon Secretary of the Epsom Groll I and lifelong iupportcr of cvcryUling urganshyic whose tireless work and lnthusiasm has brought her mass ~ of respect nn e afit(shytion

111e cnttri il fur tilt award will be senl to all groups in Febnmry If you have suggesshytions fo r c3lcgoric~ please ronmiddot tact Stephanie Jones al tllC Soil Association

Please donl forgel to send in rl Nails of evenls by the end of rfbnmry for lht next Litin EA11Ir

Greltnhotls by Sue Strickland exmiddotHead Gardener at Ryton S~lrts 730 011 Friends M eeting HOllsc York Street Bath

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Hot chicken A pof1lOI1 of duckLf1 breasl can prOllde you I1lh ytlUl enllre days needs 115mul of Ihe Vllilml1 macln IVitamln 831 IIS a nell slkJrce of Ihe nument nnd ohm recommended In 8 healthy d~t

A pOfhon of Hra(iifPd chtckcn IS hkety 10 plovtde you Ynh il bol less molcm (ke COOking

Irradiation can leplele such nUlnenls nd of COUlse lIle thicken still has 10 be cooked herwards)

But IrmdiOlted chicken does hClwe~er conlitul some new chemICals thAt- werent lnero before AccDltdg to a repart publlSlloo In lhe lounal

Nllm TDJltirotoW IWelSS 1994) salmonella baslling doses 0IodI3lion of 10 kGy ploouce 11Hilorhemlcal products such as hee radlCa amountlog 10 scme 300mu per kilo Ths IS 60mg pe pOIlJOn lour limes Ihe quilnllty 01 Ihe nocn

Cold chicken Reports 01 conunned yltlesprd1lfeltloo 01 our poulllY sUilPIy 161l 01 hOlen chlden haye lmoneRa amlDlt campylobacler conlamallon according 10 Which magamelasl OCIOO) may come as Inle surpnse 0 cnhcs of mass jJltoducuon methods

And rpOIIS mal new sUllersalmootf1a Vilnetms are prOYlng resistant to anlibiotws and ale causng len limes lhe levels of talnv m lIlmans are 10 be eltpecled dytlu belllM IIlaI anlboollC usage nos been lilI 100 h 00 ea5 rn leeeni vears

Bulthe supelbugs are sIloMog bull pecuhr oddily Sevelal cases appeal 10 be linked to lamilies With pels AccOfdlllg to one repon nJCrotJiofoglsts suspect the use 01 reUidJf1S of chdllns aM Irer tiroppmgs 8 1 feedslulfs las caused tire InfecrlO 10 spread

Aquick cuppa AmdplaullllS lTOm MPs and mediacelebs the hlSl organically

grown Inraaad tn was launchod 01 100 d af It lar - Scytll grown in tho Seychelle The Fainladelogo arms 10 Quaantee rmnl11tm sto1ndad fo the lea nickers on poy 800 hoUlng hlJalth and emHatlOn prOVision and er1Ylrooment[)1 protecuon

A slep in the ught dlreclioo IIhough some say the standards ere sull too Illw) but II was somelhlMl olso lhol caughl our eye lLlmunks Ue oorlergt of Seyl~ ~oudly allnOunte In lherr press ref5I thaI tile lea IS grown wnhout mlool pestlCld and lrlllQIfS and that Ills arrfm9h1erJ tty ro loe UK Very envrronrnentalv soUldI

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The flrsl was 10 pledge a Ihon Rand 10 local chriltJrns chautes 5aVng lhat all children needed a safe place 10 Ive good heahh an~ unllOn

The setood vmsI1l iMlsi an IJlQscklsed sum in ~ I(nnJ buSiness NevJ AijfI BevtlrJges whose main lClMty is caung arwJ dislribuong Pepsi

Federal offence Many food ccmplrnos were funous Inh lhe government over mllli COfolA report urJ1ng us 01110 lttJ1 sail suga lal elc and eal plenly 01 hw veg and sO 00 8uI we had hoped thlthr lrado ssoaatJon Ille rood ana Onnk Federatlon woulG ~eak with amodelate and tatlona voice

Well t dd and 1 didnt Ther seemed 10 be IWO VOICes speaiung al once h on the day IIlaI COMA was launthed 1110 FOF ISsued flSl one Pless release and then hes laler another

ne [sl issued ahead of I launch was II tRy partICUlarly on the ISsue of cutrrng dOWll on SlIll ~bout which the FOF 15 surpnsed and concemed althe leltommendallons1Mtlch do nol dPP to be based on ound scieru The statcmert continued Wtul~t FOPs Intention is W CUnllnlJe 10 suppon lhe Goiemmll bull Health 01 rM NaDon mnIive this may not be posSliliB ri thiS lalesl adllce is unquesMnably OIporaled UIIO HolJilh 01 the Noon pcMlcy

lhe seCOOD issued 00 rne day welcomed

Sniff your way thin The Food Commission IS used 10 bog SI me latesl slimming scam bUI mrs ooe reaily 001 Ull our noses Promolor of the SII11 Pen claim IIlaI YlU CM loose wBlgnl tJy Sniffing the pens 1Mtch come ~ three di~eent alomas

The pens have been Invenled tJy Dr Alan sch leMing Arnericar NerrologlSt Wllh a

SI 01 QUaidicalJOns and hGllDUlS Ioog IhilIl we can 1St Ho ~ys en a pauenl klses Ins or her sense of smell they Ye a lendency 10 gam weighl fiteelme If Ihey have elIa smel they would lose werght He Ihen goes on 10 ltonlmdlc IIImelf MaSl people WJI agree Ihat dunng a bad bout of cold or nu foods lasleless and they suffer a loss of appellle 0 Hirschs agument I lack oOlh logic and $C1Clce bul IIhen dd hal Slop anyone JyIng 10 make aqu buck in tile silmmong bu

COMA and endorsed the Heal of lhe N8Mn nd revealed tnc concession 1hey claun 10 have won from Ille Oeplrtmenl 01 Heallh FOr also noles mal the ChIef ModlCal Officer has cIared the corlSldeltable ~I~tandlog IIlaI has isen boo the lood robles In COMA Or Calma made n qUite clear Ihalthese lables lefer 10 popuialIOO averagesand ale In no way relevant to or for I1drvlduals The FOF also welcomes I~c Cluef ledlcal OffiCllrs assUlancelhat the Governmenl has rIO QUanufred targellor salt

This may reassure some FOf memheis but it does htt1e to rcassule)oum)llsts IOOOln9 thesshypress releases Ihal tile fOf speaks IOf all the 1000 IOOUSUY Of IIlaI Blllhe food industry SUpoOlU Ihe healthy eating largel s Nor wasany menlOO made Df COMAs lntem1 thai up 10 65 01 rno lBry sail comes from processed fooos and thaI COMA recommends lhal food manulaclurers catesers and intirviduas (sicl ClIPlOfe and grasp Ihe oppartunrties IOf reducing the soollm conlenl of looosand meals

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