Question follow-through · 20414
Processed Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the minutes from the recent Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition horizon scan meeting of 9 October 2024 on ultra-processed foods.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the minutes from the recent Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition horizon scan meeting of 9 October 2024 on ultra-processed foods.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
United Kingdom dietary recommendations are based on independent advice from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN). The SACN publishes minutes for all its meetings on its GOV.UK webpages.On 9 October 2024, the SACN held a horizon scan meeti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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