The ultra-processed food industry has no business in sponsoring health and nutrition events

A recent event “Nourish and flourish: The role of nutrition in improving women’s health outcomes” organised by media platform Devex in partnership with Nestlé is the latest example in a long history of corporate infiltration of public health policy discourse. The event had been planned to take place on 17 July, but after a flurry of criticism via social media and open letters, Devex first postponed the event,1 before later cancelling it, along with the wider partnership with Nestlé.Devex is an international news organisation and a media partner of the United Nations and covers global development. Nestlé is one of a handful of transnational food behemoths who for decades have employed well honed industry tactics to make friends and influence people in the world of global health and nutrition policy.2The “deadly Ds” of policy interference include denying harms, disputing evidence, sowing doubt, disguising involvement (via front groups), and deflecting criticism…
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