Archives for January 7, 2016

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Copycat ruling causes grief for brand owners

By Noli Dinkovski

Food producers can still protect their intellectual property rights, despite the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) ruling that it would not grant firms the power to seek civil injunctions to prevent ‘copycat’ packaging.

Sugar tax is not the biggest obesity cure

By Rick Pendrous

Reformulation, together with restrictions on the marketing and promotion of food and drink high in fat, salt and sugar are more important than sugar taxes, according to Public Health England (PHE), which in October called on the government to introduce...

Sugary drinks study slammed by food industry

By Noli Dinkovski

A new study that claims reducing the sugar content of sugar-sweetened drinks could prevent 1.5M cases of obesity and overweightness has been dismissed  as “fanciful” and “contrary to the evidence” by the food industry.

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DEFRA must do more than planned ‘reshape’

By Laurence Gibbons

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) must work more effectively with other government departments, warns the National Farmers Union (NFU), after environment secretary Liz Truss pledged to “reshape” the department in a speech...