FDF director of communications Terry Jones said:
We congratulate the Health Select Committee on its detailed and thorough report.
We have read the Committee’s comments on the Responsibility Deal with interest. We note that they appear to be based largely on its comments on the alcohol debate. In relation to tackling obesity, as the Committee’s report makes clear, the Public Health Responsibility Deal can only be one element of a complex matrix of actions by a range of actors. It is not a ‘silver bullet’.
Business doesn’t ‘set the agenda’ through the Responsibility Deal. But the Deal provides an important platform for debate and action across a range of stakeholders, within which industry can build on its record of achievement in key areas such as product reformulation and labelling to make a real contribution to improving public health.
Source: Food and Drink Federation
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