Election 2017 - Party Policies - Health - Food
27th May 17, 9:40am
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- Address income inadequacy and ensure that minimum wage and benefit rates reflect the cost of food (see our Income Support and Industrial Relations policies).
- Introduce standards and guidelines in schools so that all food and drink sold is nutritious, and include education in schools about growing food, supply chains and nutrition
- Develop a national strategy to eliminate hazards and risks of infection, with the aim of reducing the incidence of, for example, Campylobacter and Salmonella contamination in the food chain and focusing initially on poultry rearing and processing plants.
- Require “free range” to mean what it says, by developing a mandatory consumer information standard under the Fair Trading Act.
- Introduce mandatory country of origin labelling for fresh and single ingredient food so people know where their food comes from.
- Read more here and here.
- Provide a clear time-frame for industry to reduce sugar content in all processed food.
- Introduce an actual childhood obesity reduction target; and develop policy around advertising unhealthy food to children, school food requirements, etc.
- Implement clear front-of-package labelling that is easy for everyone to understand.
- Re-establish independent food safety authority to regulate, monitor and enforce food safety standards.
- Develop a robust food protection system, including protections against bioterrorism and food fraud both domestically and for New Zealand products in overseas markets.
- Read more here and here.
- Remove GST off fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and milk.
- Introduce labels on drinks and processed foods that have the number of teaspoons of sugar they contain, clearly marked in large print.
- Read more here.
- We’ve partnered with Sanitarium and Fonterra to offer free breakfasts during the school week in all primary and secondary schools that want it.
- We’re tackling childhood obesity - a new target means 95 per cent of children identified as obese in our free B4 School health checks will be referred to a health professional for support to improve their family’s lifestyle through better nutrition and more physical activity.
- Around 110,000 children benefitting from our free fruit in schools programme, which is targeted at low-income families.
- 1 million New Zealanders to potentially benefit through our Healthy Families initiative that encourages people to live healthier lives by making good food choices, being physically active, moderating alcohol consumption and being smoke-free.
- Read more here.
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- Develop and fund programmes focussing on better nutrition, particularly for children and youth.
- Treat child obesity as a parenting issue and use parent education as the first line of attack to reduce obesity rates.
- Read more here.
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