FGDP(UK) calls for firmer action on fizzy drink consumption

The Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) (FGDP(UK)) has called on the government to take additional steps to reduce rates of sugar consumption associated with fizzy drinks.

A newly-published study analysing the sugar and calories contained in sugar-sweetened carbonated drinks, conducted by the Action on Sugar campaign group, prompted the FGDP(UK) to issue this warning.

Published in BMJ Open, the report showed that the average 330 ml fizzy drink can contains more sugar than an adult's recommended daily maximum intake of 30 g, with some containing more than 52 g.

This comes at a time when other manufacturers and supermarkets are reformulating their soft drinks ranges ahead of the planned introduction of the sugar tax, which the FGDP(UK) has welcomed.

However, it believes that further regulations setting a sugar content limit for drinks of five g per 100 ml would make a more significant difference.

The faculty's dean Dr Mick Horton said: "Further restrictions on advertising of high sugar drinks, and a ban on price promotions, would help stop tens of thousands of children having to be hospitalised to have their teeth extracted."

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