Health

Sugar And Salt Content Shrivels As Consumers Get Wise On Health

Global consumer-goods makers reduced ingredients such as sugar and salt in about 20% of their products in 2016 as shoppers shift toward healthier brands....

Jumbo Supermarkets To Offer Employees Free Health Checks

Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo is set to roll out regular free health-checks, sports activities and fitness programmes for all its employees this year. T...

UNESDA Pledges 22% Less Sugar In Soft Drinks By 2020

Soft drink sector representative UNESDA has pledged a further 10% in reduction of added sugars between 2015 and 2020. Sugar reduction in Europe as a who...

Processed Cheese Brands Contain 50% Cheese: Slovenian Study

A Slovenian consumer group has analysed a selection of processed cheese slice brands and found that only roughly half of their make-up was real cheese, rou...

A.S. Watson Receives Hong Kong Business Award

The A.S. Watson Group has won the 'International Award' for its achievements in expanding its operations from a local dispensary to the successful internat...

Norway's NorgesGruppen Signs Public Health Agreement

The CEO of Norwegian retailer NorgesGruppen, Runar Hollevik, has signed an agreement to improve public health put forward by Health Minister Bent Hø...

Italy Reformulates 4,200 Products For Healthier Diet

The food industry in Italy has reformulated 4,200 products and repositioned 3,600 by reducing their caloric content, it was announced during a symposi...

France, Japan and Canada Lead Food-Sustainability Index

France, Japan and Canada are the countries with the most sustainable production, distribution and consumption of food, according to a new index measur...