FERCO trusts that Contract Catering national associations and companies can add significant value to the ongoing work at European level to encourage healthier lifestyles.

Indeed, Contract Catering Companies all share the important responsibility to provide a model of nutritional balance, especially with regard to more vulnerable groups such as young children, the elderly, and patients in hospitals. As distances, tough schedules and time pressures often make eating healthily a challenge, Contract Catering Companies are frequently providing the only balanced meal of the day to many workers, students...

The Contract Catering sector has always been looking forward to contributing to the promotion of healthy eating. Be it in a business, educational or medical environment, the FERCO members are committed to meeting the needs of consumers and of the client organisations to which they contract in offering the safest and healthiest food to Europeans.

Therefore, since 2005 FERCO participates actively to the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.

In 2005, FERCO collected in a baseline document an overview of existing initiatives in the sector regarding diet, physical activity and health. At the December 2005 General Assembly, the FERCO members together with three multinational companies: Compass, Elior and Sodexho, signed the FERCO commitments to the Plarform.

In 2006, FERCO contributed to the Commission Green Paper “Promoting healthy diets and physical activity: a European dimension for the prevention of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases”.

Files to download:

FERCO 2005 baseline document
FERCO 2006 Commitments
FERCO contribution to the Commission Green Paper
FERCO 2007 Commitments
FERCO 2008 commitments
FERCO Brochure