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‘When the Food Safety Authority of Ireland analysed the components of one particular pizza brand’: National Audit Office Food Safety and Authenticity report 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451619/Food-safety-inspectors-pizza-ingredients-60-countries.html
‘Around 40 per cent of the chicken we eat in the UK is imported’: ibid
‘Pre-fried or grilled aubergines, peppers and courgettes’: Dujardin product list
‘Eggs are supplied to food manufacturers … in powders, with added sugar’: Sanovo Egg Group: whole egg powders, http://www.sanovo.com/Whole-Egg-Powders.3266.aspx
‘For manufacturing products like Scotch eggs and egg mayonnaise’: British Lion egginfo website, Ready Egg Products, http://www.egginfo.co.uk/egg-products
‘Extended shelf life’ (one month): ibid
‘They may be liquid, concentrated, dried, crystallised, frozen, quick frozen or coagulated’: CFA, Best practice guidelines for production of chilled foods
‘Hardboiled, tubular eggs’: Eurovo, professional product range brochure
‘Egg replacers’: Egg replacers’ million-pound benefits, http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/NPD/Egg-replacers-million-pound-benefits, Food Manufacture, 31 October 2012
‘Everything from “predust” and “adhesion”’: Newlywed Foods, http://www.nwfap.com/products
‘As one supplier of batters explains’: http://www.newlywedsfoods.co.uk/index.php/products/batters
‘Rather than making potato gnocchi from freshly boiled potatoes, flour and egg’: Emflake 3890; Emsland-Stärke GmbH
‘Barbecue glazes’: MRC The Flava People website, http://www.mrcflava.co.uk/our-products/
‘Manufacturers can achieve that just marinated look in minutes’: ITV Tonight; ‘Food Facts and Fiction’, 16 August 2013
‘Providing complete, tailored solutions for a wide range of applications’: Synergy seasonings, http://uk.synergytaste.com/index.asp?PageID=153
‘As the marketing blurb for one such company expresses it’: ibid
‘A touch of liquid ham and cheese flavouring’: Unique food processing solutions, http://www.uniqueingredients.com/liquid_flavour_systems.html
‘A machine that sprays on caramel’: Unique food processing solutions; spray preparations, http://www.uniqueingredients.com/spraying.html
Chinese glaze ingredients: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=271799371
Butter extract: FLAVEX Naturextrakte GmbH
Butter powder: EPI butter powder
Cream powder: EPI cream powder
Freeze-dried apricots: A&S Biotec
‘Only short-term agreements’: CFA Climate Change Agreement; Chilled Food Sector Progress and Barriers
Chapter 2
25 major chilled food companies: http://www.chillededucation.org/industry-info/
Defra tweet 30 July 2013: The UK’s chilled prepared food industry employs 60000 inc 1000 scientists at 100+ UK sites @bisgovuk @DefraGovUK
‘Although 95% of the chilled prepared foods Britain eats is sold under a retailer’s brand’: Chilled Food Association website, Chilled Bites, http://www.chilledfood.org/MEDIA/POSITION+STATEMENTS/Chilled+Prepared+Meals
‘Sauces are cooked by the ton then spewed out onto other food components that are cooked on a conveyor belt’: ITV Tonight, ‘Food Facts and Fiction’, 16 August 2013
‘Ten tons of chicken tikka a day’: Noon Foods; ITV Tonight, ‘Food Facts and Fiction’, 16 August 2013
‘A high staff turnover and rates of sickness absence are par for the course’: letter to Guardian from Dave Prentis, Unison, 24 July 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/scandal-profits-come-before-food-safety
‘Many major plants are consistently understaffed and rely on agencies to fill the gaps’: ibid
‘The use of temporary agency labour is commonplace’: Hovis workers begin strike at Premier Foods factory in Wigan, The Grocer, 28 August 2013, http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies/suppliers/premier-foods/hovis-workers-begin-strike-at-premier-foods-factory-in-wigan/348863.article
‘A ready meals factory can be churning out 250,000 individual servings a day, made up of 60 or 70 different products, using ten different assembly lines’: author factory visit
‘One leading ready meals manufacturer … boasts’: Noon Foods; ITV Tonight, ‘Food Facts and Fiction’, 16 August 2013
‘More than 55 per cent of all registered UK food establishments did not receive a local authority health inspection’: Restore inspection across the food industry, Unite press release, 25 July 2014, http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/102288/unite_restore_inspection_across_the_food_industry.html, http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/board/board-papers-2013/lafoodlaw-annual-report-1213.pdf
Julia Long, Unite: ibid
‘Using a system known as HACCP’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_analysis_and_critical_control_points
Product recalls on 25 February 2014: Sainsbury’s recalls its Frozen Sticky Toffee Sponge Pudding, M&S Lightly Dusted Salt and Pepper British Chicken Fillets withdrawn, Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Roasted Chestnut, Toasted Hazelnut & Thyme Stuffing withdrawn
FSA research on nut allergy labelling: http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/nutallergyresearch.pdf
Tesco mouldy rice: FSA recall, http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/recalls-news/2013/aug/ambient#.Uw4tXP2MNSU
‘2,000 portions of rice at a time’: ITV Tonight, ‘Food Facts and Fiction’, 16 August 2013
Chapter 3
‘E numbers have a very high “label-polluting” effect’: Dr Jan van Loo of Beneo Group in ‘Ingredients Insight, Natural selection: clean label and natural ingredients’, 1 November 2013
‘One of the problems we face is people’s confidence in chemicals’: Phil Hood, Consumer Engagement Centre Lead – Europe, Unilever, http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/Products-Marketing/Celebrity-chefs-needed-to-sell-food-science-to-consumers/?utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BWeekly&c=lQa1YdAlY054tSsMPhMPBM2ahiIIgSyR, http://www.ingredients-insight.com/features/featurehealthy-trends-clean-label-and-natural-ingredients/
‘With well over 2,300 additives currently approved for use’: http://www.foodadditives.org/pdf/Food_Additives_Booklet.pdf
‘As this industry spokesman explains’: Dr Walter Lopez, Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients, http://www.lci.limagrain.com/lci/rm_10_08_11.html
Whole Foods Market ‘Unacceptable Ingredients for Food’: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/about-our-products/quality-standards/unacceptable-ingredients-food
‘Many [product] formulators do turn to the list of unacceptable ingredients’: Clarifying clean label, Food Product Design, Vol. 21 No. 5, May 2011, http://www.foodproductdesign.com/lib/download/asset-clarifying-clean-labels.ashx?item_id=4af15034-17b8-4bd4-8ea6-64a1d4dd974f
‘As the director of one food market research company put it’: Luisa Robertson, MMR, quoted in Food Manufacture, ‘Clean Dream’, 30 September 2013
‘The clean label concept’: IFi industry definition by National Starch Food Innovation 2012, http://www.cleanlabelinsights.com/Documents/IFI%20Article%20CLEAN%20LABEL%20DEFINITION%202010.pdf
Carrageenan and cancer: Daily Mail, 5 November 2013, Additive in everyday products ‘could cause cancer’, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-80857/Additive-everyday-products-cause-cancer.html
Carageenan ‘is now regarded in food industry circles as an “ideally not” [to be included] additive’: Food Manufacture, ‘Clean Dream’, 30 September 2013
‘Explains the sales pitch for one such product’: Westhove flours/Farigel; Limagrain.
Co-texturisers: Ingredion Indulge 2740, http://www.foodinnovation.com/foodinnovation/en-gb/Ingredients/CleanLabel/Pages/novation.aspx
‘They bring out the more subtle differences in texture’: N-Dulge, http://www.foodinnovation.com/Downloads/Company/NDULGE_brochure.pdf
Fermentation preservatives: National Marketing Institute, USA, quoted in Purac Verdad advert, Food Pro
duct Design magazine
Phosphate replacers: Ezimoist, Ulrick & Short, http://www.ulrickandshort.com/ezimoist.html
Rosemary extract: EFSA; Use of rosemary extracts as a food additive, http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/721.pdf
‘Kinetic study of pilot-scale supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) leaves’, Mónica R. García-Risco, Elvis J. Hernández, Gonzalo Vicente, Tiziana Fornari*, Francisco J. Señoráns and Guillermo Reglero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
Carrot extract: FLAVEX Naturextrakte GmbH
Carrot extract hues, such as ‘warm orange’ or ‘shining yellow’: Doehler, Crystal Clear colours
Extracts with additives in the mix: Univar, Colours for food brochure, http://www.univarcolour.com/downloads/Univar%20Colours%20for%20Food%20Brochure.pdf
Micronised powders as colourings: A+S Biotec Nature in new dimensions, http://www.as-biotec.com/uploads/media/Lebensmittel_brosch_0413_en3_net.pdf
Burnt sugars: Aromsa, burnt caramelised sugars
‘As one supplier [of caramelised sugar syrup] explains’: Sethness CS5 Caramelised Sugar Syrup
Rice extract and concentrate: Ribus, http://ribus.com/company-history-our-story
‘The cost saving is immediate’: Ribus natural functional ingredients brochure
Yeast extracts: DSM Maxavor All Natural, http://www.dsm.com/markets/foodandbeverages/en_US/markets-home/market-savory-lp/market-savory-simplified-labels.html http://www.dsm-apps.com/savorytool_eu/index.html
Label-friendly solutions: Corbion, Purac, http://www.purac.com/EN/Food/Brands/Verdad.aspx
‘Ingredients that give the impression’: Dr Jan van Loo of Beneo Group in Ingredients Insight, ‘Natural selection: clean label and natural ingredients’, 1 November 2013, http://www.ingredients-insight.com/features/featurehealthy-trends-clean-label-and-natural-ingredients/
Chapter 4
Food Ingredients Europe: Who visits? http://www.foodingredientsglobal.com/europe/exhibit/who-visits
Glucono-Delta-Lactone: Roquette, Effective acidification in white cheese leaflet
Potato protein isolate: Solanic free from solutions brochure
DKSH: DKSH Performance Materials brochure
Omya: Omya Product Portfolio brochure
Helm AG: Helm AG Competence in human nutrition
Butter Buds®: Making the most of Mother Nature brochure
All in All: company leaflet
Goat flavour cheese powder: Dairygold, cheese and dairy flavours leaflet
Caramelised onion extract: DDW, caramelised fruits and vegetables
R2 Group: product brochure
Anti-foaming agents: Wacker; Silfoam/Silfar brochure
Microlys: Culinar brochure
Pulpiz™: http://www.tateandlyle.presscentre.com/Press-releases/Pulp-Performance-Tate-Lyle-Launches-PULPIZ-Pulp-Extender-Delivers-Key-Replacement-Advantages-in-43f.aspx
Oil-dispersible technology: DDW brochure, https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/5rxTYO_78vc%26hl=en_US%26start= 36%26end=55
Carfosel®: Prayon, Phosphates on a plate brochure
Dairy essence: Flaverco, Cream and milk essence brochure
Scelta Mushrooms®: http://www.sceltamushrooms.com/salt-reduction#sthash.b2jDFt9b.dpuf
Dohler red brilliance: Dohler brochure, The shining spectrum of new red tones from a 100% natural source, http://www.doehler.com/en/landingpages/colours.html
Hydro-Fi™: Fiberstar, Hydro-Fi™ information leaflet
SuperStab™: Nexira product information leaflet
Bionis®: Biorigin brochure: Art in natural ingredients
Culinar Keep: Culinar brochure
Meatshure®: Balchem encapsulates brochure
Cavamax®: Wacker Life Science – Food brochure
Volactose: Volac brochure, Volactose whey permeate
NatureSeal: Agricoat, NatureSeal brochure
Chapter 5
‘By the chain’s own admission’: Jason Danciger, Head of Hospitality & Counters, M&S Bakery, Deli, Cafe & Eateries – Jason Danciger, www.fdin.org.uk/…/Global%20Food%20…/M&S%20Bakery,%20Deli,%…
‘The point of all this effort is to ‘create theatre’ in the food hall’: ibid
‘Profitability has tripled’: ibid
‘I then asked the M&S press centre’: email to author from Laura Watt, 9 October 2013
‘Real Bread Campaign … described such in-store bakeries as “tanning salons”’: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261107/Supermarket-bakeries-just-loaf-tanning-salons.html
Real Bread Campaign: ‘Great British Fake-Off’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5xsR0mUdM8
‘The latter additive is derived’: EFSA opinion on reevaluation of mixed carotenes (E 160a (i)) and beta-carotene (E 160a (ii)) as a food additive, http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/2593.htm
‘From wheat to eat’: Greggs customer leaflet, picked up in store 8 October 2013
‘Man snacks’: Emine Saner, Guardian, 11 August 2010
I received this response from the senior manager handling the Greggs account: email from Paul Hadfield, Havas PR UK, 31 October 2013
Chapter 6
‘Sugar … is the new tobacco’: Daily Mail, 9 January 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536180/Sugar-new-tobacco-Health-chiefs-tell-food-giants-slash-levels-third.html
The Good Hearted Glasgow Diet Sheet: author copy, acquired 14 April 2014
Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It, John Yudkin, 1972
Coca-Cola sponsorship of 2012 Olympic Games: http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/olympic-games/why-does-coca-cola-sponsor-the-olympic-games.html
A.G. Barr sponsorship of 2014 Commonwealth Games: ‘AG Barr launches £12m marketing campaign in run-up to Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games’, Talking Retail, 16 January 2014, http://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/soft-drinks/ag-barr-launches-12m-marketing-campaign-in-run-up-to-glasgow-2014-commonwealth-games/
‘Glasgow is the city with the lowest life expectancy in the UK’: Games host Glasgow shown to have worst life expectancy in UK, Guardian, 16 April 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/16/games-host-glasgow-worst-life-expectancy-uk
‘(Scotland) … has the worst health record in Europe’: Scottish mortality rate ‘among highest in Western Europe’, BBC News, 20 November 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20402129
‘[The sugar lobby] effectively silenced critics’: How Big Sugar muzzles journalists [author blog], http://www.joannablythmanwriting.com/Joanna_Blythman_Writing/Blog/Entries/2012/3/5_How_Big_Sugar_muzzles_journalists.html, http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/20/sugar-deadly-obesity-epidemic
‘In the words of one British Medical Journal editorial’: How science is going sour on sugar, BMJ 2013; 346: f307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f307 http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f307?etoc
Fat Chance, Dr Robert Lustig, London: Fourth Estate, 2014
Nature article: ‘Public health: The toxic truth about sugar’, Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt, Claire D. Brindis, Nature 482, 27–29 (02 February 2012) doi:10.1038/482027a
WHO draft guidance on sugar: WHO: Daily sugar intake ‘should be halved’, BBC News, 5 March 2014, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26449497
‘Major refiner, AB Sugar, complained loudly’: Misleading to single out sugar as lead cause of obesity, says AB sugar, Food Navigator, 10 February 2014, http://www.foodnavigator.com/Market-Trends/Misleading-to-single-out-sugar-as-a-lead-cause-of-obesity-says-AB-Sugar
CAOBISCO response to WHO draft guidance: CAOBISCO pleads for further scientific substantiation, 7 April 2014, http://caobisco.eu/public/images/actualite/caobisco-07042014150238-CAOBISCO-response-WHO-consultation.pdf
‘The founder of one baby food company wrote passionately …’: Paul Lindley of Ella’s Kitchen: Sugar witch hunt is simplistic and infantile, The Grocer, 14 March 2014, http://m.thegrocer.co.uk/opinion/letters/sugar-witchhunt-is-simplistic-and-infan
tile/355424.article
Terry Jones, the director of the Food and Drink Federation: There’s too much alarm over sugar and sweeteners, The Grocer, 12 April 2014
Waitrose and sugar reduction: Fruit juice the target in Waitrose war on sugar, The Grocer, 5 April 2014
‘A 100 gram, one-person can of cola contains up to nine teaspoons of sugar’: White Paper Proposed Sugar Tax, Leatherhead Food Research, January 2014, http://www.leatherheadfood.com/whitepapers
‘Around ten teaspoons of sugar in a meal for one’: Shocking levels of sugar in UK ready meals, says Which?, Food and Drink Europe, 26 May 2014, http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/Products-Marketing/Shocking-levels-of-sugar-in-UK-ready-meals-says-Which/?utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BWeekly&c=lQa1YdAlY07B9CCCAN2OIAz5y8LM7FUh
‘Sugar provides bulk, textural elements, browning, caramelisation and other necessary functional elements’: Navigating the Landscape of Sweetener Formulations, Food Tech Toolbox, February 2014, http://toolbox.foodproductdesign.com/reports/2014/02/sweetener-formulations.aspx
‘Some scientists argue that its effect [fructose] is even worse’: ‘Controversy: Is high fructose corn syrup worse than sugar?’, Family Doctor Magazine, January 2009, http://www.familydoctormag.com/nutrition/1283-hfcs-the-controversy.html
HFCS is cheaper than sugar: Sugar vs. corn syrup: Sweeteners at center of bitter food fight, Fox News, 6 September 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/06/sugar-vs-corn-syrup-sweeteners-at-center-bitter-food-fight/
‘Consumption of this sweetener [HFCS] has been linked to gout, hypertension, fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity’: ‘Fructose-containing sugars, blood pressure, and cardiometabolic risk: a critical review’, NCBI Curr Hypertens Rep. 2013 Aug;15(4):281–97, doi: 10.1007/s11906-013-0364-1, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23793849
‘This [bad] publicity has led to a subsequent set of misperceptions’: ‘Worried about HFCS? The “problems” have more bark than bite’, Corn Refiners Report, 20 June 2011, https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=L:0&AI=1&ShowKey=5199&LoginType=0&InitialDisplay=1&ClientBrowser=0&DisplayItem=NULL&LangLocaleID=0