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The ILSI Europe Packaging Materials Task Force has released this week a new guidance document on the existing approaches for analysing Non-Intentionally Added Substances (NIAS) from different food contact materials (FCMs).
Food and ingredient firms riding the plant-based wave in Asia should not neglect the ‘bottom of the pyramid’, where affordable and nutritious products have huge scope to boost both public health and the industry’s long-term financial prospects.
Most public health research on the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) to date
has focused on a narrow segment of commercial actors. These actors are generally the
transnational corporations producing so-called unhealthy commodities such as tobacco,
alcohol, and ultra-processed foods. Furthermore, as public health researchers, we
often discuss the CDOH using sweeping terms such as private sector, industry, or business
that lump together diverse entities whose only shared characteristic is their engagement
in commerce.