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  • FootprintComment: Salt reduction is the road to a healthier lifestyle

    PHIL HOOPER, Corporate Affairs Director of Sodexo UK & Ireland comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com on the importance of a commitment to salt reduction.                           Reducing the amount of… Read More

  • The UK Games legacy

    …AS THE hard work on one huge food operation finishes, another is already under way. BaxterStorey’s John Bennett looks back at the 2012 Olympics…                   At the start of 2011, BaxterStorey secured… Read More

  • HCA hits back at campaigner claims

    THE HOSPITAL Caterers Association (HCA) has hit back at claims that much of the food served in hospitals is coming from animals reared in low-welfare conditions.                   The RSPCA and the Campaign… Read More

  • FootprintComment: Gary Devereaux on foraging

    To launch an imaginative new menu using foraged ingredients Ampersand executive chef Gary Devereaux went foraging for unexpected, unusual or forgotten ingredients that he then turned into culinary masterpieces. Here he explains his passion.            … Read More

  • Farms of the future

    FIFTY YEARS ago this month the book ‘Silent Spring’ kick-started the environmental movement and changed the way we grow our food. As climate change and population growth exert growing pressure, what will the next generation of farms look like?   … Read More

  • Sustainable Diets

    ENCOURAGING CONSUMERS to adopt sustainable diets is important for health, environmental and social reasons. But there is difficulty in defining what such a diet is and how to communicate this to the consumer in a way they can engage with… Read More

  • FootprintComment: Beware of portion distortion

    Peter Grove, organiser of National Eating Out/In Week, explains the beauty of diversity but warns of our tendency to over-feed.   NATIONAL EATING Out/In Week took place to celebrate the diversity of international cuisines in Britain and raise money for… Read More

  • FootprintComment: What price for energy efficiency?

    GRAM UK’s Glenn Roberts outlines the findings of the company’s 2012 survey.                   “THE GREEN Paper 2012 revealed that in 2010, 64% of respondents wanted to be greener, but in 2012 that… Read More

  • Hippocrates: Organisations are what they eat

    AS WE enter the last week for submissions of the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours 2013, Amanda Ursell enlightens us about the importance of creating a platform for excellence.    Napoleon, said to be one of the greatest military commanders… Read More

  • Information, Information, Information

    AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them?   Albert Einstein once said that “the devil has put a penalty on… Read More