Food is back on the menu

Can government intervention make us change our diets?

In the late 1990s, when the Labour Party was in the ascendancy, Tony Blair asked Philip how food safety and food standards should be organised in the UK.

ment, with branches in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

the country had been plagued by a series of

impinge on personal food choices.

departments, and in Scotland this was tweaked structures.

were transferred to the Department of Health and country of origin

control systems.

commands less column inches than in the past, food safety remains a key

command a great deal of press and public debate in the coming period.