Thursday, 12 March 2026
The Food Reformulation Task Force progress report for 2025 highlights key achievements throughout the year in implementing A Roadmap for Food Product Reformulation in Ireland.
In the fourth year of implementation of the Roadmap, the task force delivered a comprehensive programme of work to drive and monitor reformulation progress and communicate transparently and regularly with stakeholders.
Throughout 2025, the task force engaged broadly with stakeholders through a variety of communication channels such as meetings with groups of food manufacturers and retailers producing particular foods (e.g. cakes, pastries and buns, biscuits, commercially available baby and toddler foods and savoury noodle-based products), in-person events, national and international presentations, technical publications, social media campaigns, regular newsletter updates and one-to-one engagement. To extend the reach of the task force, they collaborated with State bodies such as Bord Bia, Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland, as well as healthcare professional representative groups and research bodies and institutions.
Throughout the year, the task force published six reports with a focus on monitoring progress and setting nutrient thresholds and targets for prepacked foods and children’s meals sold in the foodservice sector. The continued regular and early publication of monitoring results and targets is in line with the task force’s commitment to work transparently. These monitoring reports demonstrate that, while progress is being made in some food categories e.g. yoghurts, breakfast cereals, other categories have seen limited progress and more work needs to be done. In recognition of this, the implementation period for the Roadmap has been extended for an additional 2 years, until the end of 2027.
