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the part of campaigners. This month the British Dietetic Association renewed calls for supermarkets to remove all "junk food from stores as part of Dietitians Week. a campaign it has spearheaded alongside thechildren's FoodCampaign. Pass or fail cards were issued for the public to deliver verdicts in stores. It spread the word on Twitter via the hashtag ajunkfreecheckouts. Action on Sugar has also joined the fight. Parents have tried to make healthy decisions for themselves and their children, they've managed to make it to the checkout without picking up big bags of sweets and crisps, and it catches them at the last minute," says campaign director Katherine lenner. "It undermines their good intentions." This ongoing pressure, and the issue regularly being splashed across front pages, has lett grocers with little choice but to take steps to amend their own practices. But they vary considerably (see boxes p28/9). The most significant moves have come from Lidl. Tesco and Aldi, in that order. All three committed to