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The obesity blame game
07-Aug-2006 - Laying the blame for a fatter world at the feet of the food industry has become a convenient mistake, and until this is recognized there is little chance of controlling the growing obesity epidemic.
WTO's failure is food industry's loss
31-Jul-2006 - The short sighted failure of greedy WTO trading partners to achieve any sort of meaningful agreement on global agricultural tariffs is bad for Europe's food industry.
Vanity fayre: cosmetic foods are not nutraceuticals
24-Jul-2006 - Functional foods are generally defined as products imbued with additional nutrients with health-promoting properties. But the industry needs to be wary of foods that present no actual health benefit from piggy-backing on the popularity of the category and watering down its reputation.
Sex, pills and bad information
17-Jul-2006 - The Internet is offering a wealth of information to more and more people, but also an avenue for irresponsible businesses to exploit consumer health concerns.
Organic food is selfish
10-Jul-2006 - The rise of organic food is a knee-jerk reaction to consumer health fears, and threatens to unhelpfully steer us away from improving the quality of food generally.
Cadbury's mistake
04-Jul-2006 - Chocolate has a nice feeling to it - tasty, fun, luxurious and slightly sinful. This is comfort food, accessible to all and epitomised in the recent film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Litigation: a necessary cost of doing business?
19-Jun-2006 - In the US, the role of court action in defining limits not set by regulators is generating a flood of costly court cases for the food industry: much unnecessary, and all damaging.
Healthy food and the World Cup of missed opportunity
12-Jun-2006 - Beer, bakery, confectionery, sweet drinks, pizzas, snacks galore, and even dog food. The list of products with World Cup tie-ins is dominated by junk food, while healthy food makers seem content to pass up the marketing opportunities and let others grow fat on the rewards.
Food industry must face its faults
30-May-2006 - The food industry must be honest if it is to convince consumers - and audiences - that it is not the corporate monster portrayed in the media.
Hacks v Lab-Rats: who's at fault for consumer confusion?
22-May-2006 - The relationship between journalist 'hack' and scientist 'lab-rat' must be developed if science is to get a fair deal in the press, and for consumers to be presented balanced and accurate science coverage.
Chasing down obesity
09-May-2006 - It is time to admit that society is fighting a part-time battle against the bulge, willingly lambasting soft drinks, burgers and chocolate, while shuffling silently away from a fairly dismal exercise rate.
Working at self-regulation
02-May-2006 - Self-regulation has become the mantra of food groups who argue that laws are not always necessary - but can industry be trusted when it has failed so spectacularly in the past?
Strategic philanthropy: exploitation or key to emerging markets?
24-Apr-2006 - When a company 'gives back' to the world through charitable donations, should we wholeheartedly commend it for being a good egg or sniff cynically at the profit potential that underlies every business decision?
Salt debate leaves bitter taste
27-Mar-2006 - The current debate about the levels at which the UK's food regulator has set its salt reduction targets misses the point about how healthier eating habits can be achieved.
The benzene trail
06-Mar-2006 - The gamble by US authorities 15 years ago to let the industry deal with benzene residues in soft drinks has failed, and instead only kept those who needed to know in the dark.
The bad research debate
27-Feb-2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn't reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don't protect against fractures.
The cost of bad research
13-Feb-2006 - The science has spoken. Low-fat diets don't work: Forget the carrots and broccoli sprouts, I can now have my cake and eat it, and put extra cream on top.
Marketing the risky way
06-Feb-2006 - Nationality is a dangerous brand.
Time to ditch the FFQ
30-Jan-2006 - Little wonder consumers are confused about which foods are good for them, and which bad, when scientists use methods with almost no chance of meaningful results.
Food miles leave a bitter taste
23-Jan-2006 - The organic food movement has been hijacked by supermarkets intent on being seen to be green, but their disrespect of food miles shows they are anything but.
Some news is good news
16-Jan-2006 - I am beginning to feel like a freak among journalists. Good or bad, my reporting is the product of hours of questions, fact-hunting and often-times editorial debate. Yet, despite this rigour, every day we receive emails from people asking, or even instructing, us to publish their press release on our sites.
The shimmer of patent valuation
12-Dec-2005 - Complex webs of assumptions are spinning a lie about the real value of today's companies, lulling directors and shareholders alike into a false sense of value creation.
The reach of lobbying
05-Dec-2005 - The oft-said adage that there are two things people don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation - falls apart at the doors of the EU's parliament.
Death by food support
28-Nov-2005 - If the EU keeps hiding its agriculture sector behind huge pay cheques instead of devoting more time to food research funding, the bloc's whimpering and wailing will only get worse.
Time for Japan to act on agriculture
21-Nov-2005 - Strong rhetoric at last weekend's Apec summit on the abolition of agricultural subsidies could not drown out the scraping sound of Japanese heels.
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