Junk Food Companies Join Forces to Block Food Safety Reforms

Junk Food Companies Join Forces to Block Food Safety Reforms

General Mills, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and other ultraprocessed food companies launched Americans for Ingredient Transparency to…

Children's Health Defense

by U.S. Right to Know

By Stacy Malkan

Ultraprocessed food and agribusiness companies have launched a new organization, Americans for Ingredient Transparency (AFIT), to counteract efforts by the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) coalition and others to improve the quality of America’s food supply.

AFIT is funded by large ultraprocessed food and beverage companies, including General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and more than a dozen food industry trade associations.

These companies appear to be using the deceptively named AFIT not to promote transparency but rather to federally preempt tough new state-level food safety laws…

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