The study is the first to use real-world New Zealand data on reformulation of the food supply resulting from health star ratings to estimate changes in health outcomes. More information ...

Ministers are tightening the screws. If food companies don’t embrace health stars, they’ll be compulsory. Almost a quarter of a million New Zealanders have type 2 diabetes. If nothing is done ...

Rather than informing consumer choice, Australia’s year-old health star food rating system is failing customers, and allowing food manufacturers to give an aura of health to junk foods.

A nutritionist is defending health star ratings, despite the little impact they have. Otago University has led a probe of the decade-old voluntary system for rating food products, finding they ...

A four-star hotel on the city's edge has been handed a poor food hygiene rating after a recent inspection. The Food Standards Agency paid Sprowston Manor Hotel a visit early last month where it found ...