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About the Policy Commission on Farming and Food

The Policy Commission on Farming and Food was announced on 9 August 2001. It is being run by the Cabinet Office and will report to the Prime Minister at the end of December 2001. The Food Standards Agency will be responding to the Commission on issues relating to food production and food safety.

Terms of reference

About the Chairman

About the Commissioners

The Commission’s web site

 

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It’s facetious to say that we can all afford to spend more on our food. Cheap food is vital to millions of poor people in Britain who spend a big proportion of their income on it.
Lord Haskins

Cost is an issue for many consumers. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a healthy diet. You just have to be more ingenious about putting foods together to make a meal.
Catherine Reynolds, Head of Communications, Institute of Food Research.

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Food facts: availability
A third of supermarket catchment areas are served by a single superstore.
Out-of-town stores now control 25% of the UK food retail market
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Food facts: food poisoning
In 1980 8% of women and 6% of men in England were obese. By 1999, those figures had almost trebled to 21% of women and 18% of men. And in 1998 obesity led to an estimated 18 million sick days and 30,000 premature deaths. The NHS spends at least half a billion pounds a year treating obesity.
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