Laura Vergeer, PhD Great work Laura Vergeer, PhD and team! Turns out that voluntary commitments from food companies, no matter how strong, had little impact on the overall nutritional quality of company portfolios. Bravo! 🌟🌟🌟 bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Gary Sacks StefanieVandevijvere Boyd Swinburn

Stopping junk food advertising on public transport in London has had a positive influence on what people eat. Great leadership. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan Steven Cummins TfL theguardian.com/society/2022/f…

Bravo Transport for London 👏🇬🇧 After banning unhealthy food advertising, research has shown a real reduction in the amount of unhealthy food purchased. While an effective step for the UK, Australian kids continue to be bombarded by similar ads.

Dismayed by ICN2022 sponsorship by Big Food companies? icn22.org Then pls sign this open letter: forms.gle/GQf5tVXQga9iRc… #CommercialDeterminants #IUNS #N4G icn22.org

Strong evidence to prove international health & development organizations that Nestlé should NOT be seated in national or international committees for policy design. #industryinterference Poder del Consumidor @ATNIndex GAIN NCD Alliance World Obesity Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement World Food Programme

Important win for children & families in Brazil, where court orders Nestlé to stop cross-promotion between infant formula and so-called "growing up milks". Similar colours, packaging format, font & name suffixes are often used to get around bans on promotion of infant formula.

Llamado a la #SCJN para defender el #etiquetadoclaro a nombre de Actúa por la salud Nuevamente las refresqueras y otras compañías de #comidachatarra intentando revocarlo. Un día dicen que no funciona y al siguiente quieren que se elimine.

📣Our new paper is out: A policy study on front–of–pack nutrition labeling in the Americas: Emerging developments and outcomes - The Lancet Regional Health – Americas sofia rincon gallard, PAHO/WHO @wphna thelancet.com/journals/lanam…

La aplicación de etiquetados de advertencia en alimentos no saludables en 7 países de LA, muestra evidencia preliminar de disminución en compras y reformulación de productos. Varios países más están en proceso de introducir esta medida. CINyS - INSP Dr. Simón Barquera

Excellent article on UPFs in the Washington Post with cool graphics wapo.st/3XtfTBm

GHAI is seeking proposals for a new project, Civil Society Organization (CSO) Advocacy for Trans Fatty Acids Incubation! CSOs in Benin, Botswana, Lesotho, Liberia, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are encouraged to apply. advocacyincubator.org/featured-stori…

While diabetes and obesity rates in America soar, the food and beverage industry spends billions on advertising to get consumers, including young children, hooked on their unhealthy products. This has got to stop. A good place to start? Banning junk food ads targeted at kids.

COs like #CocaCola & #Nestle received support from US & CH, to oppose implementation of Mexico's front-of-pack warning label at @WTO. An example of how corporations from the global north utilize UN to safeguard their economic interests against public health #PMAC2024 🧵1/4

Extremely useful and timely toolkit for assessing (and avoiding) conflicts of interest in food and nutrition research...great work by Katherine Cullerton (moving to BlueSky) Martin White (moving to BlueSky...) 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦 and colleagues

sofia rincon gallard introducing workshop: Codex Connect: mobilizing public health over commercial interest in WPHN CONGRESS 2024

Phillip Baker, Angela Carriedo, Patti Rundall, sofia rincon gallard, Eric Crosbie, and Elizabeth Sterken what a great conversation about codex in WPHN CONGRESS 2024 .

sofia rincon gallard from Global Health Advocacy Incubator chair this important oral presentation “what have FOPWL polices achieved?

Our Food and Nutrition team is at World Public Health Nutrition Association's WPHN CONGRESS 2024 this week, leading workshops on tax reform, leveraging research for policy change, advancing nutrition commitments without COI and lessons from Brazilian school food policies. #wphncongress2024