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Andrew Opie, a
food retailer, spoke to NCW members about the British Retail
Consortium.
He covered a wide range of issues of interest to consumers.
For instance he said that whilst manufacturers are cutting down on salt
and fat in many products, there is
a problem with pies and pastry.
He said that it is
difficult to remove fat from meat pies, and there is no industrial
process to produce low-fat pastry that is fit to eat . . .
and reducing the quantity of pastry by making lattice-topped pies
led to the spillage of the contents in transit!
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The Consumer Affairs Group is currently focussing on:
* Consumer rights, protection and labelling
* Financial services and the consumer
* Monitoring novel foods and processes
* Monitoring the testing of genetically
modified crops
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Report of a Family Farmers Association discussion
seminar, Westminster, on
1 February 2007
The Chairman, Christopher
Jones, asked: 'Is it important that family
farmers continue to exist as food producers? Or is
Britain’s agriculture now in a post food producing era
as some would claim?
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