evidence summary: uk healthy food environment index
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UK Food Policy & Nutrition: Tracking
ProgressStrengthening accountability systems for nutrition in the UK
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Today’s speakers
@Food_Foundation
Lawrence HaddadSenior Research Fellow
IFPRI@l_haddad
Inge KauerExecutive DirectorAccess to Nutrition
@ingekauer
Boyd Swinburn - KeynoteProf. of Population,
Nutrition and Global HealthUniversity of Auckland
@BoydSwinburn
Fiona WatsonConsultant
The Food Foundation@Food_Foundation
Today’s panellists
@Food_Foundation
Lord Chris Haskins
Andrew OpieDirector of Food and Sustainability
British Retail Consortium @the_brc
Jo RallingCampaign Director
Jamie Oliver Food Foundation@FoodRev
Guy Poppy Chief Scientific Advisor Food Standards Agency
@GuyPoppy1
Corinna Hawkes - ChairProf. of Food Policy
City University London@CorinnaHawkes
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What is the food environment?The collective physical, economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings, opportunities and conditions that influence people’s food and beverage choices and nutritional status.
1. Analys
e conte
xt
2. Collect releva
nt info.
3. Evidence ground policies
and actions
4. Validate evidence with govt
officials
5. Rate govt
policies and
actions
6. Weight, sum &
calculate Food-EPI scores
7. Qualify, comme
nt & recommend
8. Translate results for govt & stake-holders
Methods
DomainsPOLICY
3. Promotion
2. Labelling 9. Governance
4. Prices
6. Retail
5. Provision
8. Leadership
INFRASTRUTURE1. Composition
7. Trade & Investment
12. Platforms for Interaction
11. Funding & Resources
10. Monitoring & Intelligence
13. Health in All Policies
1. FOOD COMPOSITION: There are government systems implemented to ensure that, where practicable, processed foods minimise the energy density and the nutrients of concern.
1.1 Food composition targets/standards have been established by the government for the content of unhealthy nutrients of concern in certain foods or food groups if they are major contributors to population intakes of these nutrients.
Good Practice Statements
Food Epi in the UK•Approach of current government:
- Dependence on individual choice - Voluntary control of the companies- Transfer of responsibility to local authorities
RESULT = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
Katie in the UK
Minsŏ in South Korea Fatemeh in Iran
Some restrictions on advertising HFSS food and
drink on TV since 2008.
Advertising
Ban on soft drinks advertised on TV
since 2004.
Restrictions on advertising specific categories of food
during children’s TV, radio and internet
since 2010.
Katie in the UK
Daniela in Ecuador
Voluntary ‘Traffic light’ labelling on FOP lables
since 2010.
Labelling
Mandatory ‘traffic light’ labelling on packaged
food for fat, sugar and salt since 2014.
Victoria in AustraliaRestaurant chains required to display calorie content of food products on
their menu boards.
Katie in the UK
Crystal in Barbados
No sugar tax (yet)
Tax
Excise tax (10%) on sugary drinks introduced in August 2015
Esztera in HungaryTax (varying rates) adopted in
2012 on ready-to-eat HFSS foods
Katie in the UK
Frida in Denmark
School food regulations implemented. Milk, and fruit & veg for young
children.
School food
Fruit & veg daily for school children introduced in 2009.
Sigrid in EstoniaRestrictions on HFSS, sweet
treats and soft drinks in schools since 2008.
Brazil
Governance
• Multi-sectoral coordination
• Personal ownership and leadership from
President• Strong participation from
civil society• Private sector
engagement
Food Standards Agency
Dept. of
Health
DEFRA
Food Standards Agency
Dept. of Local
Communities
TreasuryHMRC
DEFRA
Local Authorities England
1. Analys
e conte
xt
2. Collect releva
nt info.
3. Evidence ground policies
and actions
4. Validate evidence with govt
officials
5. Rate govt
policies and
actions
6. Weight, sum &
calculate Food-EPI scores
7. Qualify, comme
nt & recommend
8. Translate results for govt & stake-holders
Next Steps for Food Epi in the UK
We are here• Partners?
• Devolved areas?
• Food environment or food system?
2016 GLOBAL ACCESS TO NUTRITION INDEX
FOOD FOUNDATION
LONDON, 10 FEBRUARY 2016
#ATNI2016
@ATNIndex
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Encourage improvements in companies’ policies, practices and performance to result in:• Greater consumer access to more nutritious foods and beverages• An environment facilitating the consumption of healthier foods and beverages
InvestorsProvide context for company engagementMediaRaise profile of industry role in malnutrition
Civil societyFacilitate effective advocacy
PolicymakersInform regulatory and policy agenda
AcademicsStimulate research on best practices
Provide companies a tool for benchmarking their nutrition
practices
Serve as an impartial source of information for interested
stakeholders
Stimulate dialogue
and action
Given its size and reach, the private sector can make a significant contribution to addressing obesity and undernutrition.
ATNI seeks to
Tool for accountabilit
y
What ATNF aims to achieve – our theory of change
The private sector can play a powerful role….
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… and has a financial and social responsibility to act
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2016 Global Index methodology
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2016 Global Index methodology
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Overall ranking
• Unilever leads the Index, with a score of 6.4 out of 10
• Nestlé and Danone also remain in the top three, as in 2013
• Mars (16 to 5) & FrieslandCampina (19 to 8) have improved the most
• Eight have risen, six fallen, five stayed the same, three new entrants.
Overall findings
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The world’s largest food companies must step up efforts to address the global nutrition crisis – investors can play a key role
• Some companies have made improvements but the industry as a whole is moving too slowly: the average score has only increased to 2.5 from 2.2 in the 2013 Index
• All companies must invest more in embedding nutrition into their global businesses– To tackle obesity, they should adopt stronger nutrition strategies and
policies and use robust systems to measure the nutritional value of all of their products and make their foods healthier, among other things
– To tackle undernutrition, they must invest within their businesses and work with governments and civil society to find innovative ways of providing affordable and accessible foods for poorer people
• Companies must take a global approach; US companies particularly must not just focus on their home markets, as they typically do
• The marketing practices of all six of the baby food manufacturers evaluated in a new element of the assessment fall short of international standards, undermining breastfeeding which is the optimal form of nutrition for infants
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Category B - Products• Unilever leads with significant margin over Nestlé
• Higher ranking than in 2013: FrieslandCampina, Mars and Ferrero
• Lower ranking: Kellogg’s and ConAgra
• Inadequate efforts to improve products’ nutritional quality
• Nutrient Profiling system: only 13 companies report having one
• % of products that can be advertised to children• Proxy for healthiness of product portfolio• Only Danone and Unilever provided data
• Fortification of products to tackle undernutrition • Only Ajinomoto, Danone, FrieslandCampina,
Mondelez, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Unilever have formulated a commitment
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Category D - Marketing• Highest-scoring Category, Danone leads.
• Marketing to all consumers 7 companies without evidence of a responsible marketing policy
• Marketing to children • Most companies subscribing to self-regulatory
pledges • But significant gaps remain in pledges
• Not applied to all media• Do not cover over 12s• Audience threshold for children 35%
• Definition of marketability to children• Only Kellogg, Ferrero, Danone, Nestlé
and Unilever use a robust NPS
• GLOBAL policies on responsible marketing to children and adults, applied to all channels, particularly new media, are required.
• No data on marketing spending on healthy products
Categories C, E, F and G – average scores very low
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Category C: Accessibility and affordability
Category E: Support for healthy and active lifestyles
• Most companies engage with nutrition stakeholders but unclear whether and how they use the results to improve policies and practice
• Very little engagement on undernutrition
• Much more transparency is needed on companies’ lobbying activities on nutrition
• Critical issue• Lowest scoring Category on the
Index, as in 2013.
• Companies expected to do much more to make healthy foods in developed and developing markets more affordable and more accessible.
• Generally a low-scoring Category• Employee wellness programs need to
be strengthened and extended• More focus needed on supporting
breastfeeding mothers at work• Companies need to move to
supporting independently designed and implemented programs to support consumers
Category F: Labelling and claims
• Back-of-pack labelling commitments reasonably good; generally not globally consistent and some key nutrients missed
• Lack of data from companies on extent of policy roll-out
• Focus needs to be on useful front-of-pack labelling and responsible use of health and nutrition claims. Category G: Engagement with
stakeholders and policymakers
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Discussion
• Strengthen the UK country profile in the Global Nutrition Report (UK Government to make available relevant data)
• Complete the Food EPI exercise for the UK (Food Foundation to convene a workshop of experts to assess the UK Government’s level of implementation of policies and infrastructure support against international best practice for improving the healthiness of food environments)
• Conduct a Access to Nutrition Index for the UK that scores and rates the largest Food & Beverage manufacturers (ATNI to include the UK as a ‘Spotlight Country’).
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