South Africa: How Food Companies Go About Shaping Public Health Policy in Their Favour

[The Conversation Africa] Obesity and diet-related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are major public health problems in South Africa. But many in the food industry strongly oppose globally recommended policies that could address these issues. Such policies include restrictions on marketing of junk food to children and improvements to food labelling.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news