The figure represents an increase of 132,000 people diagnosed with diabetes over the last year. A further 850,000 people are thought to have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes.
The European Commission (EC) has asked member states to put Official Control Plans in place that allow sampling and testing for presence of horse DNA in foods marketed or labelled as containing bee
Supporting the report titled Twenty Years of Hospital Food Failure, BDA honorary chairman Helen Davidson, said: “Good food and appropriate nutrition must, at all times, be an absolute priority.
Charlotta Oldham, category manager for Knorr Bouillon, said: “We want to know your first memory of being in the kitchen - nothing else.
Referring to the developing horsemeat scandal, Malcolm Walker told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on television yesterday: “Supermarkets shouldn’t be blamed.
Called ‘Measuring Up: The Medical Profession's Prescription for the Nation's Obesity Crisis’, the report follows a six-month inquiry by a steering group comprising representatives from 20 of the Ro
A spokesman said: “We invest heavily in quality assurance to do the utmost to protect the integrity of its product range.
It says that public institutions, including schools, prisons, hospitals and the armed forces, are within the scope of the UK-wide authenticity sampling programme being organised by the FSA.
“This is a very serious issue.
The ordering of horsemeat tests on beef products has left caterers unsure about what they should do with any beef product stocks they are carrying.