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There’s never been a more opportune time here in the US for packaged food companies to make their products healthier.

Figuring out why ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are linked to more chronic health conditions like heart disease and obesity remains an important puzzle for nutrition experts to figure out. When they do, the worst offenders could be taxed or regulated by the government while other UPFs that people enjoy could be reformulated to make them less of a long-term threat to health.

It would be a useful phrase, if everyone could agree on what it means.

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Investigative journalist keynote presenter for OPS 2021

Already have an account? Photo: Courtesy of Larissa Zimberoff We’ve all read about, and most likely tasted, the spoils of the billion dollar “plant-based” burger industry – but in her new book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat, journalist Larissa Zimberoff takes us deeper into food technology as she investigates the state of what she calls “new foods.” She shows us how the pea protein sausage is made and takes us into labs where she tastes t...

1 Governance professor Beth Simone Noveck, who formerly served as the first White House deputy chief technology officer, believes that “public entrepreneurship” can counter the failures that have dominated public policy design in the United States since the 1960s. Her new book, Solving Public Problems, revisits the four stages of policy design—identifying problems, identifying solutions, designing for implementation, and evaluation and evolution—while identifying 20 crucial decisions t...