Industry Watch
Announcing the IDDSI Academy UK official training pilot - 15th September 2025
IDDSI Global is pleased to introduce the first IDDSI Academy Pilot course in the UK, at St. Michael’s Centre, Bristol.
The pilot course consists of two parts: a compulsory online learning section (to be completed before the in-person training) and an in-person training day on the IDDSI framework, practical application, testing methods, and hands-on practice.
This is suitable for all IDDSI users including catering managers, chefs, care teams and nurses. Spaces are limited to 80 delegates.
Semaglutide emerges as contender in cerebrovascular disease management, says GlobalData
30th July 2025
GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company have highlighted the potential of semaglutide to improve outcomes in brain haemorrhage and stroke patients driven by its anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular effects due to recent clinical findings.
Costanza Alciati, Pharma Analyst at GlobalData has stated "In the past couple of weeks new results came out from three studies investigating the use of semaglutide in stroke and brain hemorrhage patients. Semaglutide seems to increase the chance of surviving in patients experiencing stroke and reduce related complications. It also seems to have a similar impact in patients experiencing brain hemorrhage, reducing side effects, seizures, future reoccurrence and death."
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
14th July 2025
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) investigation has found greater than 90 current partnerships between top British sporting teams, stars, and organisations, and brands and companies that sell foods or drinks that are high in fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS).
Academics have told The BMJ that junk food sports sponsorship deals avoid advertising regulations applied to other types of junk food marketing. This is inspite of increasing concern over food related ill health and obesity and evidence that such sponsorship deals are adding to the crisis.
White Paper on ageing and nutrition sensing
14th July 2025
The Ageing and Nutrition Sensing Network (AGENTS) was formed to connect early career researchers and leading multi-disciplinary researchers with a high level of knowledge across ageing, epidemiology, cell biology, policy and nutrition.
In this White Paper AGENTS describe their network and their four main projects, each project has involved multidisciplinary working and examining ageing and nutrition sensing from different perspectives. AGENTS also discuss how they plan to implement their findings for the promotion of healthy ageing in industry, science and policy.
Supporting safe innovation: FAO highlights food safety considerations for food supplements and functional or health foods
30th June 2025
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report provides an extensive overview of potential safety issues associated with functional foods and food supplements. This includes drug interactions, adulteration, overdose, and toxicity. It uses case studies from scientific research and reports by the media.
The report also investigates the regulatory frameworks across various regions and countries. These frameworks cover core areas of food supplements and functional foods i.e. composition, registration, labelling, classification, claims, showing the differences in regulatory approaches.