Government must proceed with landmark anti-obesity regulations in England

Saturday 1 October 2022 was meant to be a landmark date in food policy, with the implementation in England of world leading legislation to restrict the placement, promotion, and marketing of high fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) products in shops and online.1 Yet in May 2022 the government announced that the planned ban on volume based (multibuy) promotions of HFSS products—a core part of this novel legislation—was to be postponed for a year. The government blamed the delay on the cost of living crisis,2 despite objections from the public health community and concrete evidence that such promotions increase spending on, and consumption of, these unhealthy food products.34In September 2022, this legislation was dealt a further blow, as it emerged that Liz Truss’s government would be carrying out a review that could see these regulations scrapped in their entirety.5 If this comes to pass, it would also put an end to…
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