Big food, food systems, and global health

Stuckler, David; Nestle, Marion

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001242

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Big food, food systems, and global health

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Stuckler, David, Nestle, Marion·2012·PLoS Medicine

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Medicine series on Big Food that examines the activities and influence of the food and beverage

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The food and beverage and alcohol companies continue to be partners in government health processes, which makes their regulation more challenging.
“The food and beverage and alcohol companies continue to be partners in government health processes (Stuckler & Nestle, 2012), which makes their regulation more challenging (Moodie, Stuckler, & Monteiro, 2013) and thus governments should be cautious of interagency arrangements that include industry representatives.”
From Advancing progressive health policy to reduce NCDs amidst international commercial opposition: Tobacco standardised packaging in Australia (2018) · cites this paper as Stuckler & Nestle, 2012
In “Public Health Response to Big Food: A Failure to Act,” the paper describes food companies’ strong ties to governments and says whether to view them as partners is under debate. “Engaging with Big Food—Three Views” reports a UK health minister calling the food and drinks industry part of the solution. These passages support the food-and-beverage aspect, but do not establish that alcohol companies are partners in government health processes. The regulation clause is attributed to a different citation. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Authors: Stuckler, D., & Nestle, M.
Affiliations: Cornell University (US)
ORCID: Nestle, Marion
Venue: PLoS Medicine
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published: 2012-06-19
Volume: 9
Issue: 6
Pages: e1001242
ISSN: 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001242
PMC: PMC3378592
OpenAlex: W2088547283
Cited by: 516
References: 43
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 40 · 2015: 56 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 7.89
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (unspecified)
Locations: PLoS Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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PubMed (publishedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Archivio istituzionale della Ricerca - Bocconi (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Food Production Studies
Keywords: Big Food, food systems, global health, food and beverage industry, industry influence, food industry lobbying
MeSH terms: Developing Countries, Food, Humans, Public Health, Nicotiana, Food Industry, Internationality

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