info@menumatters.co.uk
07951 440 253
info@menumatters.co.uk
07951 440 253
Menu Matters can offer your organisation:
Does your organisation need to comply to nutritional guidelines? Have you got the correct structure in place to ensure adherence to nutritional guidelines?
Are you keen to reduce costs by eliminating excessive ingredient costs?
Does the healthy eating message give you an advantage in your market place?
Can you gain a competitive advantage through offering independently verified nutritional quality?
New food labelling laws came into force on 13th Dec 2014 (FIR) These include changes to ingredient declarations including allergen labelling and mandatory nutritional labelling for most pre-packed food. You can view details of the regulation by clicking here: New food labelling regulation published | food.gov.uk
Continuing from the 2009 Food Standards Agency (FSA) initiative to develop a calorie labeling scheme for the catering industry, the government have launched a Public Health responsibility deal to encourage caterers to provide nutritional information to customers. There are currently 563 partners signed up for the Public Health Responsibility Deal (October 2013).
A key Responsibility Deal initiative is the introduction of calorie information in high street food outlets. People will now be able to see calories on menus and menu boards and be in a better position to consider healthier choices.
Additional pledges include reformulating recipes to provide lower fat, salt, artificial Trans Fatty Acids and calorie content of meals. A new collective pledge on calorie reduction was announced on 24th March 2012 with some of the world’s biggest food and drink manufacturers and best known brands making commitments to cut and cap calories. More than three-quarters of the retail market has signed up. For more information CLICK HERE
Many companies have signed up to the initiative including Harvester Pubs, Mc Donald’s, The Compass Catering Group, Tescos and Sainsburys, with the expectation that nutritional information will be on display in 5000 outlets by the end of the year.
See who has joined up: Government Public Health Responsibility Deal
Organisations signing up as partners to the Responsibility Deal commit to play their part in improving public health. In signing up, they agree to take action voluntarily to support the Responsibility Deal’s ambitions.
Collective pledges on alcohol, food, health at work and physical activity set out the specific actions that partners agree to take in support of the core commitments. We have shown below the specific food pledge partners that have signed up to the Public Health Responsibility Deal. Click on the pledge title below for further information on the pledge, including the full pledge wording and details of how you can help to deliver it.
Below are examples of the type of nutritional information that well known companies, that have already signed up to the Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal pledge, are now making available to their customers. Please note that these are not the work of Menu Matters, merely a representation of the services that we offer. Please click on the images below to enlarge them.
If your business wants to sign up to the Public Health Responsibility Deal pledge and needs a dedicated company to analyse your meals and menus and provide you with an easy to read guide for your customers, then contact Menu Matters today:
Email: nicky@menumatters.co.uk. Tel: 07951 440 253
or sally@menumatters.co.uk Tel: 07423 053 105