According to the Guardian, the UK government’s public health partnerships with junk food and alcohol companies have come under attack from two of its own advisers on obesity.
In a recent article in the British Medical Journal, Professors Tim Lang and Geof Rayner, who sit on the government’s advisory committee on obesity, write these partnerships risk being a “smokescreen” for “publicly endorsed marketing.” They warn that the strategy could become “collusion between the state and corporations to hoodwink consumers. At least nannies are overt.”
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