NEWS EXTRA


Sourdough or Sourfaux? Bread consultation ‘abandons bakers and insults shoppers’


Kennedy’s Bakery Production’s Editor, Kiran Grewal, speaks with Chris Young, Real Bread Campaign Coordinator about how current bread and flour regulations are not fit for purpose.


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n the first of Sourdough September 2022, the UK Government and devolved administrations launched a public consultation on proposals to update and amend The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 and


The Bread and Flour Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998. The stated purpose of the consultation is ‘to ensure that the Bread and Flour Regulations are fit for purpose and support UK industry, while protecting consumers.’ The once-in-a-generation review of the Regulations follows 12 years of lobbying by the Real Bread Campaign.


The consultation includes not one of the Real Bread


Campaign’s Honest Crust Act proposals, supported by more than 150 bakery owners and workers who signed a recent letter to Defra, and by more than 1000 people who wrote to their MPs. Key pieces of legislation governing the composition and


marketing of bread in the UK were written a generation ago. The market has changed so much since 1998, as have people’s needs and expectations. The use of the words ‘wholemeal’ and ‘wheat germ’ are regulated but other common marketing terms are not.


12 Kennedy’s Bakery Production October/November 2022 bakeryproduction.co.uk


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