Eatwell to bring you all government food advice

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to expand its eatwell website to bring together all government information on food aimed at consumers.

Advice on food safety and healthy eating will be integrated with information on a wide range of other topics relevant to consumers' food choices, with a particular focus on environmental and wider sustainability issues.

The FSA will work closely with other government departments and bodies over the coming year to gather up-to-date information, and it plans to launch the remodelled website in spring 2011.

Originally, the need for this website was identified in the UK Governments Cabinet Office 'Food Matters' report, published in July 2008.

'Food Matters' highlighted the need for government to take a more joined-up approach, not only in providing information to consumers, but to food policy overall. The need to tackle in an integrated way the health, social, environmental and economic challenges in the food system is an approach reinforced by the recent Food 2030 strategy.