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NEWS
Every little helps
Tesco and leading health charities including Diabetes
UK are urging the UK Government to mandate health
transparency across food industry.
In an open letter to the Health
and Social Care Secretary, Tesco
and its three leading health
charity partners are urging the
UK Government to make healthier
food sales reporting mandatory for
all supermarkets and major food
businesses.
At its Health Charity Partnership
summit held at the end of May,
Tesco Group CEO Ken Murphy met
with CEOs from Cancer Research
UK, British Heart Foundation and
Diabetes UK to discuss how they can
help people lead longer, healthier
lives.
Founded in 2018, the health
charity partnership between Tesco,
Cancer Research UK, British Heart
Foundation and Diabetes UK is built
on a simple belief - that Every Little
Helps to make a big difference. The
organisations renewed the Health
Charity Partnership in June 2024 for
a further three years and it has made
significant progress since renewal,
reaching more than 1.5m people
through partnership initiatives.
With obesity costing the health
service around £6.5bn a year
and affecting millions of people
across the country, Tesco and its
charity partners are calling on the
UK Government to implement
mandatory healthier food sales
reporting, using a set of agreed and
consistent health metrics, to improve
the health of the nation.