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Food Food sustainability

• Government buying standards for food - Which? Response (PDF: 44Kb)
  26 January 2011

  Which? supports the introduction of government food buying standards but calls for the scope to be extended to other organisations such as hospitals and schools and for the criteria to be strengthened in several areas.

• Making sustainable food choices easier - Which? Report (PDF: 1561Kb)
  25 September 2010

  This paper considers consumer attitudes to sustainable food labelling and sets out the principles that should form the basis of a more user-friendly approach that makes sustainable food choices easier.

• Guidance on the application of date marks to food (FSA) - Which? Response (PDF: 39Kb)
  14 June 2010

  Which? supported the FSA review of date marking and requested further elaboration so that it ensures consumers are able to safely eat food of the quality they expect, without resulting in unnecessary waste.

• 2030 Food Vision (Defra) - Which? Response (PDF: 107Kb)
  21 October 2009

  Which? supported this initiative to develop a long-term vision for a sustainable food policy and ensure a more joined up approach to actions across government, highlighting key areas that needed to be addressed.

• Draft criteria for the Healthier Food Mark - Which? Response (PDF: 49Kb)
  08 July 2009

  Which? supported the development of a healthier food mark to encourage provision of healthier and more sustainable food in public institutions in England, but expressed concern about the weakness of the criteria.

• Proposals for the Health Check of the EU Common Agricultural Policy - Which? Response (PDF: 46Kb)
  26 August 2008

  Which? called for the European Commission to go much further in reforming the CAP in order to ensure a more consumer-focused food policy.

• Setting aside the CAP - the future for food production - Which? Response (PDF: 97Kb)
  01 January 2001

  Which? reviewed the consequences of how food is produced and gave options for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy towards consumer-focused food policy.

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