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Retailers attack Welsh government over HFSS plans

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Convenience retailers have joined with other industry bodies to warn the Welsh government that health proposals being considered for the country could serve only to increase food prices for shoppers. In a letter to Lynne Neagle MS, the deputy minister for mental health and wellbeing, the trade associations claimed the proposed regulations to restrict the …

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