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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Environment
    Ministers launch third review into risk from lead mines

    Probe by Nottingham university follows separate investigations by environment and food standards regulators

    The remains of a lead smelting mill in North Yorkshire
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s battle with Big Food

    The US health secretary is defying the industry to improve America’s diet. Is he going about it the right way?

    Robert F Kennedy Jr, a pack of Cheetos, a fizzy drink and the US Congress
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s ‘Maha’ report implicates companies in worsening children’s health

    The inaugural ‘Make America Healthy Again’ findings reflect many of the concerns of health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services budget, on Capitol Hill this month
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Brooke Masters
    How milk got its mojo back

    The dairy industry’s efforts to woo customers away from plant products are a masterclass in corporate survival tactics

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK trade
    US targets Britain’s pork, poultry and seafood markets

    Agricultural sectors are ‘front of the line’ in ongoing trade talks, says Trump’s agriculture secretary

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  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Food Safety
    EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs

    Europe’s swine herds could become a ‘dangerous virus laboratory’, Bernhard Url says

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  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Medical science
    UK detects bird flu in sheep for the first time

    Authorities play down risks to livestock but urge precautions to avoid mass outbreaks seen in US

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  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    Novo Nordisk Foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero

    Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé says parents with fewer children buy more expensive baby food

    World’s largest food company says fall in number of children per household has driven ‘premiumisation’

    Rows of Nestlé NAN baby products
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Pollution
    Ministers ignored evidence of farm animals poisoned by lead, experts say

    Government accused of failing to ‘get to grips’ with cases showing impact on livestock reared near abandoned mines in England

    Cattle graze near the ruins of an old lead mine in Derbyshire
  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    EU trade
    EU plans Trump-style import ban on food

    Brussels wants to block farm products containing prohibited pesticides

    A combine harvester unloads soyabeans into a grain cart during a harvest in Pace, Mississippi, US
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    US inflation
    US egg prices soar as avian flu rips across farms

    Wholesale prices have doubled over the past year as culls to stop spread of virus prompt shortages and rationing

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  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    The Big Read
    Should weight-loss drugs be given to children?

    A battle over how to treat childhood obesity is brewing between those in favour and others who warn of the effects on growing bodies

    FT montage of fast food and weight loss drugs
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Disease control and prevention
    UK slow to stop meat imports after German disease outbreak, experts say

    MPs told belated response to foot-and-mouth cases in Europe was because of failings in post-Brexit border regime

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  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    HTSI
    Ozempic has curbed the obesity crisis. Has it killed the joy of food?

    Modern dining in a world of tiny appetites

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  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    Disease control and prevention
    UK bans meat imports from Germany after foot-and-mouth outbreak

    Government says there are no cases in Britain as it vows to do ‘whatever it takes’ to protect farmers

    A warning sign at a farm in Germany
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    Breakfast and financial education: help us deliver this foundation

    The FT’s homegrown charity FLIC and Magic Breakfast are making a real difference for young people

    Breakfast at Lauttasaari High School in Helsinki, Finland
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children

    As their diets worsen, young people are suffering increasing levels of malnutrition and obesity. Can the UK turn the tide?

    Children attend a breakfast club at a primary school in Burnley, north-west England
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Emma Jacobs
    Cottage cheese is back and feeding online food nostalgia

    Culinary trends of the past resurface to produce comforting content

    A TikTok video shows viewers how to use cottage cheese in a recipe for an Oreo cheesecake ice-cream
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Medical science
    Scientists find potential link between ultra-processed foods and cancer

    Fatty molecules also found in UPFs seen at high levels in colorectal tumours

    A University of South Florida researcher working in a lab
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Tackling the harms of ultra-processed foods

    Consumers need clear information to make healthier choices about what they eat

    Donuts
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Ultra-processed foods fatten muscles even if not eaten in large amounts, study finds

    Research intensifies debate over health risks of mass-produced goods made more palatable for consumers

    A burger being held above a tray with sweet potato fries and dips
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    UK junk food ad ban includes porridge and pitta bread snacks

    Unhealthy foods cannot be shown online or before 9pm under new rules to cut childhood obesity

    An oat-based cereal
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Environment
    England’s environment watchdog told to review risk from lead mines

    Government-ordered report comes after FT investigation into impact of toxic metal on human health

    A scenic view of two hikers walking along a grassy trail, framed by the doorway of a weathered stone ruin against rolling hills
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Moral Money
    COP29 struggles to break climate finance deadlock Premium content

    Wealthy and developing nations in disagreement on crucial issues as climate summit nears its close

    Mukhtar Babayev scratches his forehead
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