Thursday, April 24, 2003

-US Sugar Industry Threathens World Health Organization Over New Healthy Eating Guidelines

The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organization to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.

The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0421-06.htm