Twelve local authorities have been awarded grants of between £7,000 and £15,000 by the Food Standards Agency to promote food hygiene and healthy eating messages.
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is a vibrant and vital program that is available to young mothers and youths in Pike County. However, not as many are taking advantage of the program as its director would like.
A new European regulation aimed at increasing consumer protection in relation to nutrition and health claims made on food, will require such claims to be on a Community list of permitted claims.
19/10/2006 - European food companies are already being asked to submit health claims for approval to agencies at national level, following the adoption of the new EU regulation on nutrition and health claims last week.