The Food Ethics Council has launched a toolkit to help food businesses get to grips with issues relating to the origin of food, introducing key ideas in ethics and providing a framework for decision-making.

Funded by the Naturesave Trust, ‘Ethics: a toolkit for food businesses’ contains a crash course in ethics and how it relates to business; an ethical decision-making tool and a

transparency test.

Dr Tom MacMillan, Food Ethics Council executive director, said: “Ethics can seem a minefield for food businesses, facing so many competing issues, pulled this way and that by different interest groups, and under pressure to do things that might dent their bottom line.

“That’s where our toolkit can help. We guide businesses through the basics of ethics, and provide some simple tried and tested tools. Ethics is about more than saving your brand from controversy or guessing the next niche market trend - it’s about how to make good decisions that stand up to scrutiny.”

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