SancencyTo support a bid in a bid is ready to remove free crisp and biscuits from the rooms of your employees Government campaign against obesity In Britain.
Instead, the items will be offered to the staff members A list of approved “light food” optionsWith soup, porridge and bread.
The intention is to replace these options “To a large extent unhealthy snacks” The colleagues had complained, and about whom some employees claimed, were disappearing before finishing their innings.
The supermarket insists that the change will ensure “free food more consistent range” and will give employees a chance to “break breakfast, lunch and light meal for dinner”.
“We are committed to ensure that every colleague needs it, which may be something to eat at work,” said this.
The new guidelines will apply to all Sainsbury outlets, argos sites and distribution centers.
This step comes against the background Labor The government is planning a wave of new measures to reduce obesity levels.
The office for health reforms and inequalities estimate that more than a quarter of the English population now suffer from obesity. Obesity rate has doubled since the 1990s, cost NHS An estimated £ 11 billion per year, which is three times the annual budget for ambulance services.
Health secretary Wes streeting It is warned that, as long as the “increasing tidal of cost and demand” does not curb, NHS “risk is being volatile”.
Simon RobertsA member of Sainsbury’s CEO and a member of the government’s Food Strategy Advisory Board has welcomed the latest proposals of Labor, which is a measure to order the supermarket to be bearded by average purchasing basket to 100 calories, which can, if UNMET, can impose a fine.
He has urged that such rules should be “implemented” in the entirety of our food sector “.
Meanwhile, the minister is also plotting rules for restaurants. Monitor the calorie intake of dinner dinner And run it down further.
