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Catering for Health

Last Updated: 22/09/2009

A guide for teaching healthier catering practices, from the Food Standards Agency Scotland. .

What is this? teaching materials
What is it about? restaurants workplace canteen school meals healthy eating salt intake fat intake 5 a day
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: catering
When was this published? 24/07/2006

Soil Association's Food for Life - for caterers

Last Updated: 09/02/2010

An update from the Soil Association Scotland in February 2010 on their Food for Life Catering Mark project, which is for local authority and private caterers who serve up food that is not only tasty but freshly prepared and ethically sourced.

What is this? projects
What is it about? organic sustainability
Where is it relevant? UK
When was this published? 09/02/2010

Healthyliving award plus

Last Updated: 07/10/2009

The healthyliving award plus is a higher level of award, which rewards catering establishments that demonstrate an even greater commitment to supporting healthier eating.

What is this? projects
What is it about? healthy eating food outside the home food outlets
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: healthyliving award
When was this published? 11/05/2009

Elementary Food and Health

Last Updated: 03/09/2009

This short course covers the relationship between food and health. It is designed to provide nutritional information to people working in a wide range of catering outlets as well as health care, education and the leisure, retail, advertising and hospitality industries.

What is this? training
What is it about? healthy eating
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 21/08/2009

New Guide for Food Producers

Last Updated: 07/05/2010

This new guide, launched on 27th April 2010, offers smaller and medium sized enterprises advice on how to bid for public sector catering contracts. The guide has been produced by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society (SAOS) and Scotland Food & Drink with the support of the Scottish Government.

What is this? guidance
What is it about? food food access
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 08/05/2010

Healthyliving award – making an impact across Scotland

Last Updated: 08/10/2009

This feature covers an update on the healthyliving award, introduces their new healthylving plus award and the changes to the healthyliving award criteria.

What is this? projects
What is it about? food outside the home food outlets healthy eating
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: healthyliving award

Food Standards Agency's Strategy for 2010 to 2015

Last Updated: 30/12/2009

Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) strategy focuses on ensuring that consumers will be eating safer food and will be choosing healthier and more balanced meals by 2015.

What is this? report
What is it about? food safety and hygiene healthy eating health and wellbeing
Where is it relevant? UK
When was this published? 07/12/2009

Soil Association Scotland

Last Updated: 09/02/2010

The Soil Association Scotland is part of the UK-wide Soil Association, a charity founded in 1946, which exists to promote environmentally-friendly food through education, campaigns and community programmes.

What is this? organisation
What is it about? sustainability farming school meals organic farming
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 09/02/2010

Healthyliving award certificates presented

Last Updated: 06/08/2010

Caterers from more than 150 establishments came together on 9th June to celebrate their success at the latest healthyliving award ceremony.

What is this? news article
What is it about? healthy eating
Where is it relevant? Scotland

A measure of success for East Ayrshire's school meals

Last Updated: 28/08/2009

This article from the FHA newsletter outlines the East Ayrshire Food for Life school meals programme and decribes how they evaluated it. This also involved examining the social, economic and environmental impact of the initiative.

What is this? news and communications
What is it about? school meals children healthy eating local food sustainability
Where is it relevant? Scotland (local)
When was this published? 27/08/2009

Interview with Public Health and Sport Minister, Shona Robison

Last Updated: 28/08/2009

With the launch of the first-ever National Food and Drink Policy, the Food & Health Alliance posed some questions to the Public Health and Sport Minister about developing the policy, key points and what it means to us all.

What is this? interview policy
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 01/06/2009

FHA conference 2008

Last Updated: 08/10/2009

The Food & Health Alliance conference - Moving forward with food and health which was held in February 2008 focused on co-ordinating members' contributions on the consultation for the first National Food Policy.

What is this? conference proceedings
What is it about? food health and wellbeing health improvement
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: FHA
When was this published? 05/02/2008

Food Sustainability - Scottish policy context

Last Updated: 02/09/2009

This article from the FHA newsletter outlines the Scottish policies around food sustainability in terms of balancing environment, society and economic factors.

What is this? policy development
What is it about? sustainability environment local food health and wellbeing
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 01/10/2008

FHA Conference 2009 - Community Food Skills workshop

Last Updated: 12/02/2010

A summary from the community food skills workshop

What is this? report community project
What is it about? food skills
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 12/02/2010

FHA National Conference 2009 - plenary report

Last Updated: 12/02/2010

A report on the plenary at the FHA conference 2009 which includes: Susan Gallacher, Scottish Government; Susan Pryde, Food Standards Agency Scotland; Katherine Bishop, Scottish Government; Amanda Brown, Scotland Food & Drink and Fergus Millan, Scoottish Government.

What is this? report
What is it about? food health and wellbeing
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: FHA
When was this published? 12/02/2010