14th ACSS Plenary - March 2025

Agenda

• Introductions
• Declaration of interests
• Actions from the last meeting and Chairs update
• Using a food systems approach to explore the impacts of regulatory interventions
• Afternoon session introductions
• Working group updates
• Secretariate Update
• Science Council Update
• Analytics Unit update
• Consumer views of imported foods
• Provision of Allergen Information: Best Practice Guidance for food businesses
• Reflections on ACSS plenary format and AOB
• Close

Summary

The 14^th meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Science (ACSS) included updates from: the Secretariat, ACSS Chair, Working Group Chairs, the Chair of the Science Council, Deputy Director of Science, Evidence and Research Directorate (SERD), and the Heads of Analytics Unit and Social Science. Substantive discussion items included: using a food systems approach to explore the impacts of regulatory interventions, consumer views of imported food, and a planned evaluation of new best practice guidance for the provision of allergen information. See Annex A for agenda and papers.

Associated papers

Paper 14.1 Developing a cross-government systems thinking approach to better understand the food system

Paper 14.2 ACSS Working Group Update

Paper 14.3 ACSS Secretariat Update (March 2025)

Paper 14.4 Evaluating Allergen Information for Non-Prepacked Foods: Best Practise Guidance

14^th Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Science (March 2025) Minutes