Third of UK government’s nutrition advisors still paid by food companies including Coca Cola and Nestlé

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• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “All SACN members are due to meet the new interests policy within the next two years,” they added. “In the meantime, existing members with any significant interests are excluded from relevant discussions.”

  But experts argue that scientists with financial ties to the food industry should not be involved in influencing policy and have called for the conflicts to be removed “immediately”.

  So if you’re wondering why we’re not doing anything about it, we have; it just hasn’t come into effect yet.

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