A representative of the UK food industry has confirmed that the sector will not reach a government target to reduce sugar by 20% by 2020. The spokesperson for brands including Cadbury, Kellogg’s, Mars and Nestlé said that companies would reduce the amount of sugar in food and drinks, but not in accordance with the government’s “arbitrary” targets. The voluntary 20% target was one of the only measures to be retained from a blueprint for combating childhood obesity which was abandoned by Prime Minister Theresa May last summer. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, told food companies in September In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s
A representative of the UK food industry has confirmed that the sector will not reach a government target to reduce sugar by 20% by 2020. The spokesperson for brands including Cadbury, Kellogg’s, Mars and Nestlé said that companies would reduce the amount of sugar in food and drinks, but not in accordance with the government’s “arbitrary” targets. The voluntary 20% target was one of the only measures to be retained from a blueprint for combating childhood obesity which was abandoned by Prime Minister Theresa May last summer. In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s