The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has launched its annual groceries sector survey and is interested to hear from suppliers as to how they have been treated by the 14 large retailers.  

The survey, run by the independent polling company YouGov, is confidential and covers the behaviour of the retailers and issues affecting the industry. The responses will help the GCA understand which large retailers are perceived as the most, and least, compliant with the Groceries Code and how cost price negotiations and other issues are impacting suppliers.   

The survey is open for six weeks, and closes on Sunday 23 February 2025, and the results will be published in the summer. The GCA will commission YouGov to conduct anonymous follow-up interviews with a select group of respondents to explore supplier concerns in more detail. Suppliers can indicate their willingness to participate in these interviews at the end of the survey.   

You can take part in the survey here 

To help set the priorities for future research, the University of Bristol is asking children and young people with food allergies, their parents, and health care professionals who care for them for their views.  

One in five children in the UK are affected by food allergies, which can have an impact on their physical, emotional and social wellbeing, and that of their family too. There are many unanswered questions about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of food allergy in children, and researchers do not know which are the most important to children, parents and health care professionals. 

With funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the University has teamed up with the James Lind Alliance  – a not-for-profit organisation which looks to identify unanswered health research questions by reaching out to those most affected. Together they have launched a survey and are inviting children and young people, their parents and health care professionals to respond.   

More detail, including an informative video can be found the study website as well as on a recent press release   

As part of the BFFFs membership of the Move to -15°C Coalition and our work with our equivalents across Europe and the US, we would like feedback from our members on a Cold Chain Baseline Monitoring Protocol, developed by an AFFI-GCCA Taskforce on GHG Reductions. The protocol is being designed so that all research is conducted in a way that it is all comparable. The task force was an informal group of U.S. frozen stakeholders who met at the end of last year discuss the needs and challenges related to raising the standard set point of frozen storage and distribution temperature in the cold chain and look for reductions in energy consumption and GHG emissions from the frozen sector from such a transition.

If you would like to engage in this process, please could you send us thoughts on the document in comments or track changes which will be collated and sent to the task force. We will be very grateful for any input from you all.

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Please send your responses to Rupert Ashby on rupertashby@bfff.co.uk