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Chief among the benefits that companies get from belonging to the Food and Grocery Council is exclusive access to information, seminars...

People often do and say silly things where alcohol is involved. I’m not meaning just those who may consume too much of it, rather those...

Now they’re going too far. As if years of using erroneous figures as “evidence” to back calls for taxes on sugar in everyday foods and...

Last month I wrote about predictions by some food industry experts on the shape of the food industry in 2050. When some of panelists...

The newspaper headline was enough to get nutritionists wondering: “Fat enzyme breakthrough kept mouse thin on pizza and burgers diet”....

No stock farms, no animal ingredients in any foods, and definitely no meat section in supermarkets. It doesn’t sound right, but according...

As predicted, the food industry year is shaping up to be dominated by what more can be done to reduce obesity. This is no surprise since...

Being raised in Dunedin, the presence of the Cadbury factory looming large not far away down the hill made sure chocolate played a big...

Has the tide on the sugar tax debate finally turned? Has evidence and common sense prevailed? A week can be a long time in politics, but...

Reducing packaging waste has been a focus of grocery manufacturers for many years, and a lot of work continues to be done to consider...

I’m picking 2018 to be the busiest year in the food and grocery sector for some time. That’s mainly because we’ve got a new government...

The NZ Food & Grocery Council is always on the lookout for ways to create opportunities for member companies and the wider food sector,...

Everyone agrees New Zealand’s rate of obesity remains a real concern. The New Zealand Health Survey 2015/16 shows that 32 per cent of...

In the past couple of days, lobby group Consumer NZ and the Dental Association have called on the governments of New Zealand and...

Claims that a tax on sugary drinks is likely to have “a number of benefits” for the population have been shot down by an analysis of...

In the nearly nine years I’ve led the Food and Grocery Council, I’ve become increasingly concerned about the quality of some academic...

In an era when consumers are sceptical of ‘fake news’, a further concern is brewing. Public health is one field where such concern is...

Harvard University Dining is big business. The self-sustaining department serves 25,000 meals a day during the academic year and five...

I was sorting through some old boxes of books recently when I came across my Home Economics book from school, or as it used to be called...

Walk into any major supermarket and the first thing you see are bins filled with fresh fruit and vegetables. And they all have stickers...