‘ Strict guidelines regulating the amount of sugar in school dinners have been scrapped just as health experts raise alarm over the deteriorating standard of people’s daily diet. The Government said nutritional guidance – setting out the levels of vitamins and minerals in lunches – would be axed because the rules are too complicated.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th March 2014
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‘A boy who was fed nine litres of goat’s milk a day for six months will not be allowed to live with his mother, a senior family court judge has ruled.’
The Independent, 6th March 2014
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‘Three men caught taking discarded food from bins outside an Iceland store will not now be prosecuted after an explosion of criticism over the decision to bring charges against them, including from the company’s chief executive.’
The Guardian, 29th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Crown Prosecution Service claims there is “significant public interest” in prosecuting men arrested for taking discarded food.’
The Guardian, 28th January 2014
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‘Couple told they could face jail after admitting manslaughter of their son Ndingeko, who died from rickets after his parents insisted on strict eating regime as part of their religion.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2014
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‘Only cheese produced in the Yorkshire Dales will in future be allowed to use the name Yorkshire Wensleydale. The European Commission has awarded the cheese Protected Geographical Indication status (PGI).’
BBC News, 20th December 2013
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“A sweet shop owner has been fined after he sold 30p Asda Smart Price chocolate bars as ‘Wonka’ bars worth £3.”
The Independent, 5th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Nearly eight hundred years ago, in 1216 English law first recognized a right to food. Yet between April and September this year over 350,000 people received three days’ emergency food from the Trussell Trust food banks, triple the numbers helped in the same period last year.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Nearly 200 Muslim prisoners are suing the Government after being served halal food contaminated with pork, claiming their human rights were breached.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Marmite advertising campaign attacked by critics for trivialising the work of animal welfare agencies has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In order to be considered a prohibited ‘reduction in disease’ claim within the meaning of article 2(2)(6) of Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ 2006 L404, p 9) as amended, there was no requirement that the claim expressly state that the consumption of a category of food, a food or one of its constituents “significantly” reduced a risk factor in the development of a human disease. Moreover, pursuant to the transitional measures in article 28(2) of the Regulation, a commercial communication appearing on the packaging of a food could constitute a trade mark or brand name thereby attracting the protection afforded by the transitional provisions, provided that it was protected, as a mark or name, by the applicable legislation, that question being for the national court to determine. The benefit of article 28(2) applied only to foods bearing a trade mark or brand name which fell to be considered a nutrition or health claim within the meaning of the Regulation and which, in that form, existed before 1 January 2005.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant chain was fined £8,000 after a woman who told staff three times she was allergic to gluten was served wheat pasta.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When is Greek yoghurt legally Greek yoghurt? That was the question put to Mr Justice Briggs in a major IP battle between the makers of Total Greek Yoghurt, Fage UK, and New York-based Chobani.”
The Lawyer, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Consumers are to be asked whether they will accept traces of horsemeat in their food if it proves too costly and technically difficult to check thoroughly for levels of contamination under 1%.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The BBC has learned that European meat suppliers are using a loophole in the law to sell a banned low quality material to UK sausage makers.”
BBC News, 28th February 2013
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“The Food Standards Agency has ordered companies to test their processed beef products after analysis of lasagne made by Findus found up to 100% of the meat came from horses.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In a judgment handed down this afternoon, the Competition Appeal Tribunal largely upheld Tesco’s appeal against the OFT’s decision that it had participated in unlawful agreements relating to the price of cheese: see Tesco Stores Ltd v Office of Fair Trading [2012] CAT 31.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 21st December 2012
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“What’s in a name? Well, if it’s the name of a tasty local food, then legal wrangles, multimillion-pound sales and the threat of small local traders going to the wall.”
BBC News, 20th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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