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This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to limit consumption of red and processed meat can be rolled out at a population level. It expands advice in our Policy Blueprint for cancer prevention, which combines evidence on cancer risk – our Cancer Prevention Recommendations – with policy advice for population-level prevention.

Published January 2025.

Red and processed meat policy factsheet

Read about the associations between food, nutrition and physical activity and the risk of colorectal cancer – from our Diet and Cancer Report 2018.

Read the report on how we evaluated all the available evidence relating to people living with and beyond a colorectal cancer diagnosis.