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Posted Sat Nov 13 2010: from London Guardian:
McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1289671143
The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned. In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five "responsibility deal" networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month.
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I thought this sort of thing only happened in the good ol' USA.
Or Somalia.

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