Pepsi, Coke, Nestlé, Unilever found to dominate global food policy

Groups 'representing' diverse interests actually dominated by ultra-processed food companies, new paper reports

In 2022, I co-authored a paper finding that 95% of the 20-person expert group reviewing the science for our 2020 national dietary guidelines had at least one undisclosed financial tie with a food or pharmaceutical company. The next committee for the 2025 guidelines was also found to have numerous undisclosed conflicts, a lack of transparency that led ma…