How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?

🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)

Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...

Timely editorial by @TheLancetEndo highlights need for policies on ultra-processed foods. @carlos-monteiro.bsky.social & me agree, adding that policies targeting ultra-processed diets as a whole are realistic & urgent—especially in regions not yet dominated by them www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🚨 More than 80 independent nutrition scientists have signed an open letter raising concerns over an industry-backed effort to redefine the Nova food classification system—the very framework that has helped expose the harms of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). 🧵1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1SDWK...

🔥 Big news for public health, mums and babies in Australia! The ACCC has denied the Infant Nutrition Council's bid to keep the baby food industry's self-regulatory marketing agreement (MAIF Agreement). Here's why that matters 🧵⬇️

It was a pleasure to contribute to this new Institute of Development Studies & UN FAO report "Development and Piloting of a Tool for Conducting Political Economy Analysis of Agrifood Systems and Food Security and Nutrition Policies and Programmes." 👇 opendocs.ids.ac.uk/articles/rep...

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods?

We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Great to see investigative reporting on this issue 👏 Draws on our work on the baby food industry’s harmful marketing practices and baseless product claims. Reveals how government trade supports and interventions in the WTO help fuel expansion by these companies into Asia and elsewhere www.smh.com.au

A pleasure to speak last week on ultra-processed foods and what governments can do about it. My talk focused on defining the problem, as largely a corporate and profit-driven one, and outlined a whole of food systems ecological approach to regulating UPF systems 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258854/...