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1/N “Food for thought-Deficiencies” in @ttindia wd focus on Conf of Interest #Food #policy #conspiracy triggered in 2002 with @gatesfoundation founded @GAINalliance with a 50 M $ grant to broker with food companies to make fortified foods telegraphindia.com/opinion/food-f… @TimothyWSchwab

2/N I discuss two food policies fortification and marketing of ultra-processed foods, food industry and makers of chemical nutrients dominate the development through partnerships with the @FSSAI creating #ConflictsOfInterest @aiimsrishi @CSEINDIA @pahowho @MoHFW_INDIA @PMOIndia

3/N Key working with @fssaiindia Food Fortification Resource Centre are GAIN, @NutritionIntl @WFP @tini_tatatrusts , ‘The India Nutrition Initiative’ and ‘Food Fortification Initiative’ funded by one or another food industry. Stakes in the bottom-line, but not in your health

4/N @WFP in India receives donations from ‘General Mills’ (cereals, ice creams pastries), ‘YUM’ (fast food) and ‘Cargill’(food ingredients, chocolates, ultra-processed foods, corn, edible oils, floor, sweeteners and starches). WFP is a co- convener of the @SUNBizNet

5/N GAIN is the convener of the @SUNBizNet , the Royal DSM is the chair of the partnership council of GAIN. Donors include @Unilever (food and nutrition portfolio), @Hersheys (chocolates), @ArlaFoodsUK (dairy foods), @AIFRwanda @MarsFoods (snickers, chocolates) and @BASF

6/N @NutritionIntl receives funding from @gatesfoundation lists DSM (food ingredients and vitamins) and BASF (performance ingredients, beverage stabilizers, colorants and interest in fortification) as partners. In 2002 @Roche sold its nutrients business to ‘Royal DSM’

7/N Food Fortification Initiative has partners including @Cargill, GAIN, @NutritionIntl, @BASF. Tata Trusts and ‘The India Nutrition Initiative’ both are offshoot of Tata Group that produces nutrients for fortification of salt- iron and iodine, work closely with @GAINalliance

8/N Conflicts of Interests in food labeling are quite apparent as 22/28 stakeholders are from the food industry or its associations e.g. @CocaCola , @Dabur, @haldiramfoods @KelloggsIndia @MDLZ @GeneralMills @Nestle, @Danone @PepsiCo Marico and HUL, @FollowCII @ASSOCHAM4India

9/N @BMJ gh.bmj.com/content/6/8/e0… shows businesses influence the policy on nutrition. #SupremeCourt India in 2011 observed that FSSAI panels be free of conflicts of interests, same principle needed to be applied in any food policy development process. @PhilBakerNZ @GyorgyScrinis

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