Horticulture industry calls for health star rating system review

Hayley Kennedy
Ashley Walmsley
February 19 2021 - 1:00pm
NEEDED: Growcom is calling on an urgent review of the decision to rate fresh juice no higher than some soft drinks at the next national meeting of food regulators.
NEEDED: Growcom is calling on an urgent review of the decision to rate fresh juice no higher than some soft drinks at the next national meeting of food regulators.

THE Health Star Rating system has been labelled as 'shallow' and in need of an overhaul, after a decision to cut 100 per cent fruit and vegetable juice's rating from five stars to as low as two stars.

Hayley Kennedy

Hayley Kennedy

Livestock Editor

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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