Big firms make trans fat commitment

The largest food retailers in the UK have announced that they are to stop adding trans fats to their own-brand products. Asda, Boots, Co-Op, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose have made the commitment under the auspices of the British Retail Consortium, which says its biggest members have pledged to bring in the change by the end of the year. Andrew Opie, the BRC?s food policy director, says, “This is the latest in a string of healthy food initiatives and shows that BRC members, responding to customer concerns, are willingly delivering a scale and pace of change way beyond anything retailers or manufacturers are doing anywhere else in Europe.”

The Independent