2024
December
CMO Report: Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2024 (16th December)
New Food Strategy: Action on Salt and Sugar welcome announcement of 2024 National Food Strategy (16th December)
Junk Food Ad Ban: Government finalise legislation to ban unhealthy food TV ads aimed at children (5th December)
Comment in Food Navigator: How F&B is getting creative with salt reduction (2nd December)
November
Comment in The Guardian: The Truth About Salt: How to Avoid One of the World's Biggest Hidden Killers (25th November)
Nourishing Britain: A Political Manual for Improving the Nation’s Health (25th November)
Recipe for Change: Health organisations sign open letter to Chancellor and Health Secretary (8th November)
October
UK Government: Chancellor announces Autumn budget (30th October)
House of Lords Report: Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system (24th October)
Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future (21st October)
September
Research: Reducing Salt Intake Has an Important Blood-Pressure-Lowering Effect in Individuals Already on Drugs for Raised Blood Pressure (6th September)
August
Action on Salt & Sugar Report: Assessing the Healthiness of the UK OOH Sector (9th August)
July
General Election: Labour win's UK General Election - Keir Starmer new Prime Minister (5th July)
June
World Health Organization: New WHO Europe report highlights how big industry fuels chronic diseases, obstructs health policy and targets vulnerable people (12th June)
May
Action on Salt Report: Restaurants Urged to Prioritise Children's Health, say Experts, as Some Provide More Than an Entire Day’s Worth of Salt in Just One Meal (14th May)
Bite Back: New report from Bite Back calls on food businesses to remove child-appealing features from packaging of HFSS food (2nd May)
April
World Health Organization: World Health Organisation Global Sodium Benchmarks for Different Food Categories, 2nd Edition (17th April)
Comment in Food Navigator: How is the Food Industry Tackling Salt Reduction? (2nd April)
March
Comment in Daily Mail: Chippies should cut the number of holes in saltshakers to improve nation's health (15th March)
Comment in the Telegraph: The everyday foods that contain more salt than a packet of salted crisps (15th March)
February
Action on Salt Report: Cheese Industry Showing no Signs of Salt Reduction, New Study Shows (27th February)
January
House of Lord's: House of Lord's Launch Inquiry on Food, Diet & Obesity (29th January)
Action on Salt and Sugar welcome announcement of 2024 National Food Strategy
16 December 2024
With the recent launch of the National Food Strategy led by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Action on Salt and Sugar is pleased to welcome the new plan and is hopeful for decisive government action.
Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2024
16 December 2024
Junk Food Ad Ban Legislation
5 December 2024
The government have finalised a new law that will prevent children being exposed to TV adverts for unhealthy food products before the 9pm watershed. The law will come into place from October 2025 and will also include a ban on paid online unhealthy food adverts.
Nourishing Britain Report
25 November 2024
‘Nourishing Britain: A Political Manual for Improving the Nation’s Health’ interviews several senior UK politicians to share insights on how the government can learn from previous experiences and ensure impactful food policy action.
Recipe for Change open letter to Chancellor and Health Secretary
8 November 2024
Action on Salt, along with over 30 other health organisations, have signed an open letter calling for bolder and more decisive action from the Government, to build a healthier food industry.
Autumn Budget Announcement
30 October 2024
Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system
24 October 2024
Labour Win's UK General Election
5 July 2024
