The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to undermine public health interventions.
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• The McGovern Report (
• Seeing Red No. 3: Coloring to Dye For (
• Who Determines if Food Additives are Safe? (
• Taxpayer Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods (
• Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization (
• Food Industry Funded Research Bias (
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (
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