Food for Life Catering Mark Fresh food you can trust.

“The Catering Mark is now an industry standard.”

Mark Davies, ISS Education

Soil Association - beginnings

Healthy plants

Healthy animals

Healthy food = healthy people!

Healthy soil

Good food for all

We want everyone to be able to access food that is good for them and good for the planet

From the Food for Life Partnership

Public health impacts

• 5-a-day went up 5%

• 4-a-day went up 12%

• 45% parents eating more vegetables as direct result of FFL

• 43% parents changed food shopping behaviour

Food for Life Catering Mark

• No undesirable additives or trans fats

• 75% freshly prepared

• All meat meets British welfare standards

• Eggs from cage-free hens

• Seasonal menus

• No fish from the ‘fish to avoid’ list

• Free drinking water prominently available

• No GM ingredients

• Information on display about where food comes from

• Training for all catering staff

Success so far

• Over 600,000 meals per day = 110 million meals each year

• Over 100 pioneering business directly involved as members

• 28 Local Authorities – in house –going up.

• 49 Commercial catering businesses

• Over 20% of all schools meals meet the Catering Mark criteria (England)

• More than 75% London boroughs

Leading the way

Operation hospital foodBBC 2 primetime

Care homes: developing partnerships

Challenges?

Development of our standards

Consultation on transportation and storing for the care sector

Contact

Katrina KollegaevaBusiness Development London/SE/EE

Kkollegaeva@soilassociation.org07916 216 250