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Food for Life Catering Mark Fresh food you can trust.
“The Catering Mark is now an industry standard.”
Mark Davies, ISS Education
Soil Association - beginnings
Healthy plants
Healthy animals
Healthy food = healthy people!
Healthy soil
Good food for all
We want everyone to be able to access food that is good for them and good for the planet
From the Food for Life Partnership
Public health impacts
• 5-a-day went up 5%
• 4-a-day went up 12%
• 45% parents eating more vegetables as direct result of FFL
• 43% parents changed food shopping behaviour
Food for Life Catering Mark
• No undesirable additives or trans fats
• 75% freshly prepared
• All meat meets British welfare standards
• Eggs from cage-free hens
• Seasonal menus
• No fish from the ‘fish to avoid’ list
• Free drinking water prominently available
• No GM ingredients
• Information on display about where food comes from
• Training for all catering staff
Success so far
• Over 600,000 meals per day = 110 million meals each year
• Over 100 pioneering business directly involved as members
• 28 Local Authorities – in house –going up.
• 49 Commercial catering businesses
• Over 20% of all schools meals meet the Catering Mark criteria (England)
• More than 75% London boroughs
Leading the way
Operation hospital foodBBC 2 primetime
Care homes: developing partnerships
Challenges?
Development of our standards
Consultation on transportation and storing for the care sector