Food lobby urges PM to back health bill and tackle UK obesity crisis

More than 100 organisations have joined forces to keep salt and sugar targets and stop ‘Operation Red Meat’

A broad and eclectic coalition of more than 100 businesses and campaigners on health, food and the environment is calling for the government to enshrine tough food targets in law, amid concerns that Boris Johnson is about to ditch anti-obesity measures.

Greggs, Aldi, Tesco and other major food businesses have joined groups including the National Trust, RSPB and British Heart Foundation in urging ministers to introduce legally binding targets that would force successive governments to take long-term action to tackle the obesity epidemic, with one in four people in the UK classed as very overweight.

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