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Weekend reading: UNICEF policy on engagement with food and beverage companies

Food Politics

UNICEF does not want its statements to be compromised by conflicted interests with food and beverage companies that make formula or foods for children. Here’s how UNICEF will be dealing with the food and beverage interests. Avoid all partnerships with ultra-processed food and beverage (UPF) industries.

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UNICEF’s manual on protecting children from food marketing

Food Politics

Increasingly and more urgently concerned about the effects on children of unrestricted marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages, UNICEF and WHO have produced an invaluable manual on why and how governments must act to curb such marketing. We know that food marketing harms children.

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Annals of Marketing: Coca-Cola innovations

Food Politics

Try this one: Coca-Cola launches beverage created with the help of artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, Becks rolled out the world’s first beer and full marketing campaign made with artificial intelligence. The real money is in sugary beverages and other ultra-processed drinks. As I keep saying, it’s a Brave New World.

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WHO recommends policies to restrict food marketing to kids

Food Politics

The World Health Organization has just come out with a new report on protecting children from the harms of marketing unhealthy food to kids. Reductions in the power of food marketing were more often found with: mandatory policies; and policies designed to restrict food marketing to children, including those older than 12 years.

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Senator Bernie Sanders vs. Big Food

Food Politics

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. It’s way past time to take on the food industry’s manipulative marketing practices. This has got to stop. A good place to start?

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What I’m reading: AI in food and beverage

Food Politics

Read more AI Drives New Era in Food and Beverage: Experts at Monday’s IFT FIRST keynote panel agreed that artificial intelligence is and will continue to be a transformative force reshaping the science of food industry. Read more The post What I’m reading: AI in food and beverage appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Industry-funded study of the week: marketing, not science

Food Politics

I have long argued that industry funded studies are about marketing, not science. That’s marketing, not science. The post Industry-funded study of the week: marketing, not science appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. Here is a prime example (it caught my eye in Food News from the Institute of Food Technologists).

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