#Food-industry-regulation

The FDA is once again asking food companies to voluntarily reduce the sodium in their products. It says that 40% of food categories have done just that. Prior to 2021, consumer intake was approximately 3,400 milligrams per day on average, far higher than the limit recommended by the Dietary

I’m just getting around to reading this report from three groups in the UK: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA): Holding us back: tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink. I learned about it from an article in The

IPES—the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems—states the problem: Over recent decades, corporations have succeeded in convincing governments that they must be central in any discussion on the future of food systems. [No, they should not.] Publicprivate partnerships and

The Food Foundation in Great Britain has produced a report on the status of the British food industry. The full report is here.   Here’s what the writers of the report would like the food industry to do: Like American food companies, British food companies put profits to shareholders as

The American Journal of Public Health has just published a first look—ahead of its print in June—at my most recent article, Regulating the Food Industry: An Aspirational Agenda [if you are not a member of the American Public Health Association, this will be behind a paywall, alas]. It begins: I