NEW DELHI: A leaked mail from the International Food and Beverages Alliance (IFBA) has revealed the hectic lobbying by this alliance of the world’s largest food and beverage companies to influence the framing of rules on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) engagement with the private sector.
It also revealed how the IFBA which includes companies like Coca Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, McDonald’s and Unilever is being backed by the developed world including several countries of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the US who seem to have pledged to not accept any framework which excludes the food and beverage industry.