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It’s been a sporting summer in Scotland with Glasgow hosting the XX Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup being hosted at Gleneagles.

With 675 awards held by caterers across the country, and another few hundred proceeding with applications, the healthyliving award team are as busy as ever.

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In this edition you can read all about the Scottish Government’s new framework for the food industry, Subway achieving its first ever healthyliving award and some great and unusual award- winning mobile units that traded at the Glasgow 2014 Glasgow Green Live Zone.

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The food industry urged to take further action

The Scottish Government launched the new Supporting Healthy Choices voluntary framework in June. This framework sets out specific voluntary action for the food industry, including retailers, manufacturers, caterers and the public sector, in order to support healthier diets in Scotland.

Michael Matheson, Public Health Minister, announced the new framework by visiting a Subway store in Edinburgh. The sandwich chain, which has 154 franchises in Scotland, was one of the first major companies to sign up to the framework.

The framework was produced in partnership with the Food Standards Agency in Scotland and sets out 17 commitments for action across four priority areas:

  • Putting children’s health first in food-related decisions.
  • Rebalancing promotional activities to encourage healthier choices.
  • Improving education and information available to customers.
  • Reformulating recipes to reduce levels of salt, sugar and fat.

Subway’s Edinburgh city centre store in the St James Shopping Centre was presented with its healthyliving award at the launch, making it the first high-profile high street food-on- the-go retailer in Scotland to hold the award. Achieving the healthyliving award is one of the key commitments for this kind of business in Supporting Healthy Choices and one of eight commitments Subway Scotland has signed up to. The company has made a commitment to gain the healthliving award in all of its Scottish stores.

Mr Matheson said:

‘ I welcome the fact that Subway, a major high street name, has committed to working with us and signed up to the framework. Eating out plays an important and increasing part in people’s lives and people deserve to be able to eat healthier food.’

www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/Healthy-Living/Food-Health/supportinghealthierchoices

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issue 31:
Autumn 2014
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