Response from the World Cancer Research Fund to the UK Government’s proposals regarding School Food Standards. The submission sets out strong support for the changes set out and includes recommendations to further strengthen them in relation to cancer prevention.
Submitted May 2026.
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This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to eat a better diet, rich in wholegrains, vegetables, fruit and beans, 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.
Read the full chapter and toolkit on the links between wholegrains, vegetables and fruit and cancer from our Third Expert Report in 2018