全球运动的最新报告公司问责制揭示了影响世界各地营养标准的利益冲突和歪曲的科学。那个报告，“Partnership for an Unhealthy Planet: How Big Business Interferes with Global Health Policy and Science,”finds that the Coca-Cola funded International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) has ties to over half of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee (DGAC) and is involved in publishing leading nutritional research.
“Since its founding, ILSI has proven critical to the junk food industry’s growth and global expansion,” Ashka Naik, Research Director at Corporate Accountability, tells Food Tank. “In this time, the fortunes of these corporations have grown in leaps and bounds…on a similar trajectory to global rates of diet-related disease. The correlation is no coincidence.”
ILSIwas founded in 1978 by a former Coca-Cola executive as an industry-sponsored organization. It claims to bring together researchers from both public and private sectors to provide scientific research that improves human health and well-being. Though ILSI does not identify itself as a lobbying group, the report finds its direct influence over government policy is significant.
“Partnership for an Unhealthy Planet” details ways that ILSI produces misleading science. This, in turn, affects policy making bodies and influences nutrition guidelines worldwide.
In the United States, the federal government issues the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) every five years–a process Corporate Accountability finds to be heavily skewed by ILSI influence. The DGA is intended to be a primary resource for nutritional advice, serving as the basis of federal food and nutrition education programs and shaping how Americans perceive a healthy diet.
这些准则应反映最新的营养研究。但是报告发现Nutritional Review，ILSI的营养科学出版物以及ILSI北美近40％的出版物没有披露财务关系或利益冲突。该报告还发现，2020年DGAC成员中有15个具有直接的食品和饮料行业联系。在20名成员中，有9名由美国营养学会（ASN）提名，该协会由32家跨国食品和饮料公司组成。
该经验不是美国独有的，该报告还详细介绍了墨西哥，印度，阿根廷和台湾与跨国食品和饮料公司的ILSI领导人之间的联系。该报告表明，这些领导人也在推动改变行业以牺牲公共卫生为代价的变革。
在过去的几年中，一些公司已经与ILSI断开了联系。火星在2018年放弃与ILSI的关系，雀巢在2020年初效仿。现在，消费者希望看到这种趋势继续下去。
Within three weeks of the report’s release, over 70,000 people demanded Coca-Cola and its peers break ties with ILSI, and more than 40 international civil society organizations demanded other food and beverage corporations to do the same, Naik tells Food Tank. Corporate Accountability recommends that ILSI and its backers no longer have any role in the formation of nutrition policy. They also ask that corporations cease political and charitable giving to ILSI.
公司问责制希望公众能够了解ILSI对营养准则的影响的影响，并推动未来消除公司影响力。Naik认为，营养政策制定委员会任命的成员应该更好地反映一个国家人口的需求，而不是食品和饮料行业的利益。
“The public’s health, the growing call for health equity now, and our democracy demands far better than national nutrition policy recommendations written by industry lobbyists, on the advice of industry-connected scientists, who were nominated by industry trade groups,” Naik tells Food Tank.
