David Drew's Blog

 Next Monday, 22nd February marks the start of Fairtrade Fortnight. The theme this year is the ‘Big Swap’ encouraging us as consumers to look out for and swap to Fairtrade equivalent products. There is an enormous range of products available with the Fairtrade Mark, and I am very pleased that we are seeing an increasing number of ‘big brands’ sourcing fairtrade materials and carrying the Fairtrade mark – including Tate and Lyle sugar, Cadbury Dairy Milk and most recently Nestle’s standard size...

The 1st – 7th February is World Salt Awareness Week, which has become an annual event since 2005.  The focus of the week this year is ‘Salt and Your Health’.  We are all increasingly aware of the warnings about reducing salt in our diets.  Clear labelling means we know much more about the amount of salt there is in our processed food.   The much used words ‘reduced salt’ tell us the product has been developed and improved and of course has less salt....