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To: Health Secretary Wes Streeting
Make Sugar the new Tobacco
From baby food that’s sugarier than Coke, to breakfast cereals based on chocolate bars, the food industry is out of control. It’s time for Government to make it do the right thing and cut sugar, applying tried and tested policies from home and abroad.
Why is this important?
From tooth decay to type-2 diabetes, excessive sugar is fuelling preventable diseases with a multi-billion-pound price tag to our NHS.
Voluntary action to try and encourage the food industry cut the dose has failed.
So, we need mandatory policies that force them to do the right thing. To reformulate their food, to remove misleading claims in their ads and on their packaging, to stop them peddling junk food to infants in the face of government guidance.
The very same strategies that have been applied to tobacco need to be brought to bear on sugar.
This isn’t about adding to the cost of living: It’s forcing the hand of Big Food.
