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Sainsbury’s boss, Mike Coupe, slams Theresa May’s childhood obesity plan

on Aug 19, 2016 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Sainsbury’s chief executive, Mike Coupe, is the latest high profile figure to condemn the lack of assertiveness around Theresa May’s childhood obesity plan.

The government’s latest strategy aimed at tackling the culture of unhealthy eating in the UK has been widely criticised by medical experts and campaigners over the lack of enforcement over the policies.

Coupe criticised the plan in a letter to The Times saying: “We need compulsory and measured targets for the reduction of sugar (and other nutrients such as saturated fat) across the whole of the food and drinks industry. Nothing less will work.

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Source: The Drum