24 Sep 2019 --- In contrast to the roaring success of the UK Soft Drink Industry Levy (SDIL), which saw sugar in soft drinks fall by 29 percent from 2015 to 2018, the food industry is lagging far behind with an average reduction of just 2.9 percent. This is according to Public Health England (PHE)’s second-year report on the progress made by the food industry to voluntarily reductions of sugar in the foods contributing the most sugar to children’s diets. In part two of NutritionInsight’s coverage of the findings, it becomes clear that the initial target of a 20 percent reduction by 2020 may be wildly unattainable.
