Food and drink industry 'leveraging pandemic' to peddle unhealthy products, say NGOs | Malay Mail

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EDINBURGH, Sept 11 ― Food and drink producers are leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to push unhealthy products such as alcohol, sugar-laden soft drinks and fatty fast food on consumers, an international coalition of health charities said yesterday. Crowd-sourced research conducted by the...

Friday, 11 Sep 2020 09:43 AM MYT

Crowd-sourced research conducted by the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance raised concerns that food giants are fuelling increases in chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease ― themselves known Covid-19 risk factors. Lucy Westerman, police and campaigns manager with the NCD Alliance, said the survey had thrown up two clear trends.

Of more than 750 examples submitted by contributors of what the NCD Alliance called “corporate capture” by food and drink companies, the most were reported in Britain and the United States.

 

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